The Hunger Book A Memoir from Communist Poland【電子書籍】[ Agata Izabela Brewer ]

＜p＞＜strong＞“A searing memoir about growing up behind the Iron Curtain, motherhood,addiction, and finding sustenance in the natural world.” ー＜em＞Kirkus＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞The Hunger Book,＜/em＞ Agata Izabela Brewer evokes her Polish childhood under Communism, where the warmth of her grandparents’ love and the scent of mushrooms drying in a tiny apartment are as potent as the deprivations and traumas of life with a terrifyingly unstable, alcoholic single mother. Brewer indelibly renders stories of foraging for food, homemade potato vodka (one of the Eastern Bloc’s more viable currencies), blood sausage, sparrows plucked and fried with linseed oil, and the respite of a country garden plot, all amid Stalinist-era apartment buildings, food shortages, martial law, and nuclear disaster in nearby Ukraine.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Brewer reflects on all of this from her immigrant’s vantage point, as she wryly tries to convince her children to enjoy the mushrooms she gathers from a roadside and grieves wh．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る