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Set in rural south Poland in the 1980s, this novella follows a young girl's passage to adulthood in her village, where folklore lives alongside religious belief and peculiar personal metamorphoses are the norm

About the Author

WIOLETTA GREG is the author of six volumes of poetry and a novella, Swallowing Mercury, translated here into English for the first time. Her poetry collection, Finite Formulae Theories of Chance, was shortlisted for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. She lives in Essex.ELIZA MARCINIAK is an editor and translator. She lives in London.