Queenless
by Mira Marcinów
Translated by Maggie Zebracka
POLITYKA PASSPORT PRIZE 2020
Republic of Consciousness Prize Reading Club Pick for August
Shortlisted for the Conrad Prize 2020
Shortlisted for the Nike Literary Award 2020
Shortlisted for the O!Lśnienia Award 2020
Shortlisted for the Empik Discovery Award 2020
In post-Soviet Poland, a young woman tries to fill the space left by
her eccentric mother while struggling to fit in modern life.
Playing with form and content, Queenless is a fierceless story about the desire to live; about great, crazy and greedy love between a mother and a daughter.
Marcinów finds her own language to describe loss
and extreme intimacy: trance-like, strong, witty, yet
trembling, cruelly honest, full of tenderness and longing.
Published by Héloïse Press
