Milk Teeth 1st Edition Helene Bukowski Jen Calleja Translation by Helene Bukowski, Jen Calleja (translation) 9781951213350, 1951213351 instant download after payment.

"Skalde writes her thoughts on pieces of paper, making new discoveries & revelations, & finding scraps with which to understand her limited world. Her mother Edith tells her little, preferring the solitude of her room. Their house is full of silence, and secrets. Skalde has only ever known life in the territory, a terrain of farms and forest cut off from the rest of the world. They are isolated further, as decades since Edith's arrival in the territory she is still viewed as an outsider by their remaining neighbors. A heavy fog hangs over the territory, Skalde has never seen blue in the sky her entire childhood-- but one day the fog dissipates, & is replaced by an oppressive, perpetual heat. The territory dries out, & its people become increasingly erratic, & desperate. When Skalde finds a girl called Meisis in the forest, Skalde instantly feels she must care for her and brings her in. They form a family unit, in spite of Skalde's increasing frustrations & anger with Edith & the urgent need to keep Meisis hidden. Meisis's presence means there has been a serious breach in security for the territory, & once discovered, Meisis will be blamed for other, more deadly anomalies."

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Helene Bukowski, born in Berlin in 1993, is studying creative writing & cultural journalism in Hildesheim. She is the co-author of the documentary film Zehn Wochen Sommer, which won a Grimme Special Cultural Award in 2015. Her writing has appeared in various journals & anthologies, & she was the co-editor of BELLA triste.

Jen Calleja is the author of I’m Afraid That’s All We’ve Got Time For (Prototype), Goblins (Rough Trade Books) & Serious Justice (Test Centre). She is a literary translator from German.