- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd; UK First Edition; 1st printing. edition (21 May 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1847670660
- ISBN-13: 978-1847670663
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.2 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 65,472 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'She is a writer to follow. A writer to be cherished.' Susan Sontag
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Baba Yaga is an old hag who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. She is one of the most pervasive and powerful creatures in all mythology. But what does she have to do with a writer's journey to Bulgaria in 2007 on behalf of her mother? Or with a trio of old women who decide to spend a week together at a hotel spa? Startlingly original, "Baba Yaga Laid an Egg" takes a traditional myth and spins it afresh. The result is an extraordinary meditation on femininity, ageing, identity, secrets, storytelling and love.
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
As Dubravka Ugresic's book reminds us, the world is built on myths & stories - old myths that have been pushed aside, but like grandmothers, retain surprising power. Shake them up, turn them inside out, and they can still bring light to dark places. Growing old, as my 80 year old mother often says, is not for the fainthearted. When I have tried to get friends to read this book (and I want everyone I know to read it) I explain that it is a surreal, imaginative, humorous re-working of the Russian mytho of Baba Yaga to tell a new story about old age, I'm not sure I am selling it. Somehow, this brilliant writer manages to gather in friendship, old age, sex, women & men, the body, power, the Balkans, America, obsessions with health and vitamins, the seige of Sarajevo, literary fandom and exile all in one wild ride of a story. The book is shaped like a tryptich, and is one that can be read in a gulp and then returned to and savored. A reminder in a world where everything is increasingly the same that many wonders still remain.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I love the way Dubravka Ugresic describes her relationship with her mother. There was a lot to recommend in this book, particularly if you are interested in myth. However, as a story it didn't quite hang together and I was a little frustrated by this even though the author deliberately chose this method of writing. If you want to read Dubravka Ugresic I would instead recommend her essays, particularly 'Thank you for not reading.'
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This book is fascinating. It is not hard to read, the author has a fluidity so it races along.
I did not know a thing about Baba Yaga, so the last part of the book which explains who and what Baba Yaga stands for, a Croation, Serbian maybe Russian myth about someone, could be a man, but mostly a woman, an old hag, a mad woman, a witch etc, which pulls the book together very well. It certainly is unusual and entertaining.
I would like to read a lot more of this author's books.
I did not know a thing about Baba Yaga, so the last part of the book which explains who and what Baba Yaga stands for, a Croation, Serbian maybe Russian myth about someone, could be a man, but mostly a woman, an old hag, a mad woman, a witch etc, which pulls the book together very well. It certainly is unusual and entertaining.
I would like to read a lot more of this author's books.
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