Viktorie Hanišová

The Mushroom Gatherer

Trans. Igor Stanojoski
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Muza, 2019, 308 pp
9786084906018
Language: Macedonian
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Literary fiction

The story of an ill-fated attempt to escape trauma.

The tale of a young woman, a loner called Sára, who lives in an old cottage in the Šumava hills and makes a living by gathering and selling mushrooms. For seven years she has been following the same route through the foothills, thus maintaining a delicate balance in the dilapidated rural building where she has set up home. The hermit Sára seems unmoved by the news of her mother’s death, but the inheritance proceedings bring the family who rejected her back into her life. Sára’s house is falling apart just as her life and business are. It is time to return to the past and deal with what remained unresolved in this uprooting. After her successful 2015 debut, Anežka, Viktorie Hanišová has produced another story of parental failure.

Information about the original Czech edition

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Other selected published translations (3)

El micelio Spanish

La cercatrice di funghi Italian

Die Pilzsammlerin German

Печуркарката
Muza, 2019, 308 pp
9786084906018
Language: Macedonian
Goodreads rating
86.6% (Rated by 1884 users)