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- ISBN 9781068740404
- Publication Date: 20 Feb 2025
- Publisher: Linden Editions
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Voracious follows a year in the life of a young woman caring for her dying grandmother in the company of her grandfather, her friend, and animals. The novel is set in a small village which echoes with noises from the nearby abattoir and which is threatened by a landslide. The grandfather is renovating a room for his wife while the women care for one another, for the plants, and for the animals. Malgorzata Lebda guides us through the countryside, the changing seasons, wildlife, illness, death, and love. Everything is at once fragile and full of life, animate and inanimate. Full of profound emotional truths, this book signals the arrival of a new international talent.
Malgorzata Lebda is well-known as a poet, with eight collections to her name. Among other major accolades, she won the prestigious Wislawa Szymborska Award in 2022. Voracious, the winner of Empik's Best Newcomer in Poland, shortlisted for Angelus Prize, Conrad Award and NIKE Award, is her debut novel. Malgorzata Lebda is also a photographer and marathon runner - she covered a distance of 1113 kilometres along the Vistula River as part of her activist/poetry project Reading Water.
Antonia Lloyd-Jones translates fiction, non-fiction, poetry and children's books from Polish. Her translation of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by 2018 Nobel Prize laureate Olga Tokarczuk was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International prize. For ten years she was a mentor for the Emerging Translators' Mentorship Programme, and is a former co-chair of the UK Translators Association.
