Kinderland
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1911710036
ISBN-13
9781911710035
Publisher
Seven Stories Press UK
Imprint
Seven Stories Press UK
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 16th, 2023
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
218 grams
Dimensions
14.00 x 21.00 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Fiction in translation
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Kinderland unfolds through the letters of a young girl to her absent parents. Her dispatches go unanswered, but they relay to a reader lively tales of cruel pranks and jovial reconciliations, pain and tenderness, despair and hope as these young children grow up alone with sadness, and longing. With her parents gone in search of work, twelve-year-old Cristina must act as a mother to her two younger brothers. Through her eyes, we roam the streets of a contemporary Moldovan village populated almost entirely with children and old people. Just as most of the inhabitants left their countryside and homes with the desire to earn a better income, their parents also went to the world for money, the mother to Italy, the father to Siberia, and the children were left to fend for themselves. Here the youth must learn to survive on their own; they grow up fast, imitating the gestures of the absent adults, and chasing their fading memories of normal family life. A novel that deals with a painful true reality, which has over time grown to become a phenomenon: the lives and struggles of children left home alone by parents who have gone to work abroad.
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