Swallowing Mercury

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Wioletta Greg, Eliza Marciniak: Swallowing Mercury (2017, Portobello Books)

160 pages

English language

Published Nov. 11, 2017 by Portobello Books.

ISBN:
978-1-84627-609-5
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Swallowing Mercury review

The style of the writing is well-suited to the point of view of a young teenager growing up in Poland circa 1980-90. The metaphor of "unripe fruit" as a way of describing lives that have not thrived or reached a potential or even a maturity, will stay with me.

Subjects

  • Poland, fiction
  • Fiction, historical, general