Talita

So, traditional provincial customs and beliefs collide with modernity; miracles coexist with reality, and death in no way defies life. The unusual stories in Talita include: a group of modern-day Kashubians holding an ‘empty night’ vigil over the dead body of a young girl; a young Jewish woman being turned into an ice statue along with a matzevah tombstone; an oak growing within the grounds of a priory refusing point-blank to be cut down; an ordinary boy befriending the daughter of a gypsy king; and an eight-year-old boy becoming obsessed with his older aunt. In this collection, Paweł Huelle returns to the kind of superb magic realism to be found in his well-known novel, Who was David Weiser? These latest stories offer a real adventure in literature that lies on the border of fiction and reality.