Splithead

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Stunning debut novel about Egon Scielle's early days.
''My father and I head towards a nervous breakdown as he attempts to erase three years of Communist indoctrination in the course of a single evening. I simply cannot comprehend that Lenin, the friend of all children, is now allegedly an arsehole.'' When 7-year-old Mischka and her family flee the oppressive USSR for the freedom of Vienna, her world seems to divide neatly in two: there''s life as she knew it before, and life as she must re-learn it now. But even as she''s busy dressing her new Barbie, perfecting her German, and gorging on fresh fruit, Mischka is aware that there''s part of her that can never escape her homeland, with its terrifying folktales, its insidious anti-Semitism, and its old family secrets.

As her parents'' marriage splinters and her sister retreats into silence, Mischka has to find her own way of living when her head and her heart are in two places at once. There is darkness galore in this novel. But there is also much comedy to be had in its twisted enchanted tales. It is as seductive and unsettling as similar work by Angela Carter or Margaret Atwood, while it shares a geography with Everything Is Illuminated and If I Told You Once.
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Weight 0.225000
Author Julya Rabinowich
Availability IP
Department Literature
Format Paperback
ISBN 9781846272820
Pages 208
Published 03/02/2011
Publisher Portobello Books
Section Literature
Size Unfolded 13x20cm
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