Description

The characters of these stories are not interconnected, yet their stories are united by a common past. You recognize some heroes and heroines immediately; in other stories and dialogues, you see yourself, your friends, or your neighbors. “Dubovyja jablyčki” is a sincere, emotional, and bold project of a personal chronicle and a meditation on the many faces of family, language, childhood and maturity, femininity and motherhood, and a new, distant country that has become home.

The book begins in Russian and ends in Belarusian and the Polesian dialect native to the author.

Volha Kasciuk lives in New Zealand (Aotearoa). Her short stories, poems, essays, and translations have been published in magazines, anthologies, and online publications worldwide. In her work, she often addresses themes relevant to feminist literature, as well as questions of decolonization and languages.