Description: Kinderland by Liliana Corobca, Monica Cure With her parents gone in search of work, twelve-year-old Cristina must act as a mother to her two younger brothers. Through her eyes, we experience the feeling of wonderment and loneliness as they roam the streets of a contemporary Moldovan village. Her mother has gone to Italy, her father to Siberia, and the children grow up fast, imitating the gestures of the absent adults, and chasing their fading memories of normal family life.Kinderland is the second novel by Moldovan novelist Liliana Corobca to be translated into English. The first was The Censors Notebook (2022), which won the prestigious Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2023, remarkably so since it was also the translator, Monica Cures, first attempt at a book-length translation. Kinderland showcases Corobcas signature ability to present grimness in a way that is also so full of life and a love of people, and a kind of curiosity thats gentle and forgiving of peoples strangeness.From the author of the award-winning The Censors Notebook, a novelabout childrenwhoseparents have departed for employment in foreign lands, told through the perspective of a young girlwho is responsiblefor her two brothers."Corobcas novel not only reports with tenderness and wit on the pain and patience of abandoned children, it also traces the economic, social and moral decay of the rural milieu with wide awake realism."-Andreas Breitenstein, New ZurichWith her parents gone in search of work, twelve-year-old Cristina must act as a mother to her two younger brothers. Through her eyes, we experience the feeling of wonderment and loneliness as they roam the streets of a contemporary Moldovan village. Her mother has gone to Italy, her father to Siberia, and the children grow up fast, imitating the gestures of the absent adults, and chasing their fading memories of normal family life.Kinderland is the second novel by Moldovan novelist Liliana Corobca to be translated into English. The first was The Censors Notebook (2022), which won the prestigious Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2023, remarkably so since it was also the translator, Monica Cures, first attempt at a book-length translation. Kinderland showcases Corobcassignature ability to present grimness in a way that is also so full of life and a love of people, and a kind of curiositythats gentle and forgiving of peoples strangeness. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography LILIANA COROBCA is a writer and researcher of communist censorship in Romania. She was born in the Republic of Moldova and is the author of the novel Negrissimo (2003), winner of the Prometheus Prize for debut fiction. She is also the author of the novels The Censors Notebook (Seven Stories Press, 2022), which won the 2023 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, A Year in Paradise (2005), Kinderland (2013), and The Old Maids Empire (2015). She has received grants and artists residencies in Germany, Austria, France, and Poland.MONICA CURE is a Romanian-American writer, translator, and dialogue specialist, as well as a two-time Fulbright grant award winner. Her poetry and translations have been published in journals internationally, and shes the author of the book Picturing the Postcard- A New Media Crisis at the Turn of the Century (University of Minnesota Press). Her translation of The Censors Notebook by Liliana Corobca won the 2023 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize. She is currently based in Bucharest. Review "[A] vivid portrait of rural life. . .Kinderland is a heartbreaking account of a childhood abruptly curtailed." —Financial Times"With a gifted and incisive eye, Corobca ably interweaves the innocent gaze of childhood with the harsh reality of the adult world in this startling, evocative novel about those who are literally and figuratively left behind in the global economy." —Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the Sun"Kinderland is not just an extraordinary look at life in Europes edgelands ("our poor and unhappy country")--its also a powerful novel, full of surprising imagery and beautiful writing." —Alex Preston, The Guardian"What a paradox! Kinderland is a novel about sadness and poverty, but without it European literature would be sadder and poorer." —Filip Florian, author of Little Fingers"In this dark fairy tale, livestock and prowling strays coexist with absent adults, rituals, and the wisdom of children. Yet Cristinas energetic anecdotes evade bleakness, forming a captivating vision of a rural outpost in modern Moldova. Here, survival depends on cleareyed practicality. Amid such trials, the narrow bridge between childhood and adolescence still affords momentary pleasures for which Cristina can be grateful. Kinderland is a literary novel about growing up amid economic decline; in it, a savvy girl lives according to her love for her family." — Foreword "This is such a tender, searching book, that masterfully reveals the complex consciousness of childhood without ever resorting to cliche. A premise that seems dystopian—a land of virtually no adults—turns out to be harrowingly real, but real too are the triumphs and small joys of Cristina and her kin. Its rare for a novel to be both devastating and soft at the same time, but Corobcas astute rendering of youthful longing, along with Cures deft translation, deserves a special spot in the powerful subgenre I like to think of as True Childhood." —Kristen Iskandrian, author of Motherest "A truly lovely and needed book. Corobcas voice, is so balanced and unmatched--tender and thrilling, quiet and funny, painful and wonderful—in an excellent translation." —Emily Tarr, bookseller at Thank You Books in Birmingham, Alabama "Through Cristina, Corobca perfectly conveys a childish sense of wonder and naivety while never letting you forget the precarious fact that these children are all on their own. Her moments of sorrow and loneliness tell the story of the abandoned and the forgotten in a village that could collapse at any moment." —Paul MacKay, Kings Co-Op Bookstore in Halifax, Nova Scotia "Horrifyingly beautiful. It is a touching testimony of self-assertion. Cristina is a Moldovan Pippi Longstocking. In her world, however, being alone is no fun." —Carsten Hueck, Deutschlandradio Kultur "Corobcas novel not only reports with tenderness and wit on the pain and patience of abandoned children, it also traces the economic, social and moral decay of the rural milieu with wide awake realism." —Andreas Breitenstein, New Zurich "Liliana Corobca has not only created an impressive heroine, but also a contemporary document that is as moving as it is touching. A contemporary document about the life of children in todays Europe, which stirs up trouble in the heart of the reader and raises many questions." —Mirko Schwanitz, Kulturradio RBB "Liliana Corobca succeeds in putting the cosmic loneliness of these children into words with her persistent eye for detail, which almost reaches the emotional pain threshold." —Dirk SchÜmer, Die Welt "The tone of the narrator, half naive and half precocious, half shaken and half unmoved, is exactly what one would expect from a premature twelve-year-old. ... Corobcas everyday, dry realism fits in with this, the highlight of which are the vivid images." —Hans-Peter Kunisch, Zeit "In emotional and artful language, Corobca tells a moving story about everyday life as a child in a broken adult world, about outrage, longing, tenderness and anger." —Carsten Hueck, WDR5 "An unsentimental, but tender, wonderful book from our European neighbourhood." —Cornelia Zetzsche, BR Divan"The writer masters the text with an enviable accuracy that is extremely well-researched, as if she herself had been in the shoes of her characters. In Kinderland, we meet with the philosophy of life of children from rural areas, the village and all its customs, and find humor and tragedy in equal measures, laughing at the pranks and bungles of the children left on their own, while also crying over their misfortune… Liliana Corobca manages to transmute her ideas with bitter irony. Theres an ease to her writing, but it is powerful… In this novel she successfully combines reality, fiction, love, and the mystical, and constructs passages with a strong emotional charge that comes from gradually accumulated tension, which, once it reaches its peak, simply overwhelms the reader. One of these passages, for example, is the one in which the main characters, three children who are left to take care of themselves, become their own imaginary parents, using their parents old clothing; they dress up in them to pretend their wearers had never left home." —Ctlina Blan, Observator Cultural Details ISBN1644213273 Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 1644213273 ISBN-13 9781644213278 Format Paperback Author Monica Cure Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. Translator Monica Cure Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S. Subtitle A Novel Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2023-11-14 NZ Release Date 2023-11-14 UK Release Date 2023-11-14 Pages 160 DEWEY 859.335 Audience General Publication Date 2023-11-14 US Release Date 2023-11-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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