![]() ![]() "Meanwhile, until she died a month later, the whole time Misia saw nothing but the left side of the world, where her guardian angel was waiting for her, who always appeared at truly important moments." Lined in darkness and sorrow, because the world is not friendly to mankind, and the only thing to be done is to find a shell for yourself and your loved ones, and stay in there until you are released. There are gods and angels, and wars and disease and famine, love and good times and babies and food and death.Īs she is dying - we were also there when she was born - Misia Boska's family knows that she "would be gone forever, all her recipes would be gone, all the chicken liver and radish salads, her iced chocolate cakes, her gingerbread, and finally, her thoughts, her words, the events she had taken part in, as ordinary as her life," and yet Through the kindness of author Tokarczuk, we get to spend a few years in the Polish town of Primeval. For it is God's business to create, and people's business to name. To the west are the "riverside meadows, a bit of forest, and a manor house." The mill is perched on the two rivers, the White and the Black.Īt the centre of Primeval God has raised a large hill, onto which each summer the maybugs swarm down, so people have named it Maybug Hill. ![]() Angels guard it on the north and the south. It takes an hour to go around the Polish town of Primeval, on the road to Kielce. ![]()
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