Reading Skywards – Your Friendly Bookshelf

translated by Eliza Marciniak

INFORMATION ABOUT THIS BOOK
Publisher ‏ : Transit Books 
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 12, 2017
Format:  Paperback and ebook
Print length ‏ : ‎ 146 pages
Genre:  Small Town and Rural Fiction

MY PERSONAL OPINION OF “SWALLOWING MERCURY” BY by WIOLETTA GREG

I got the book from my local library. I wanted to pick a short book to be the first book of 2025. I picked the book solely on the size without knowing much about it. 

I truly enjoyed reading this book! From beginning to end, it was touching, tender, innocent, dramatic at times, and sensual at times as well. It is presented as a fiction work, but it reads as a memoir, and it felt real I had to do a quick search and it is a coming-of-age memoir. 

It felt depressing at times taking into account the political situation of Poland, however, it was also hopeful and delightful to see the day-to-day from the view of a child, a girl, and a teenager.

I totally recommend this book if you want to ready something different, with a plot that lingers as long as the chapter you are reading.

PREMISE OF THE BOOK AS FOUND IN AMAZON / GOODREADS:

In this celebrated debut from prize-winning poet Wioletta Greg, Wiola looks back on her youth in a close-knit, agricultural community in 1980s Poland. Her memories are precise, intense, distinctive, sensual: a playfulness and whimsy rise up in the gossip of the village women, rumored visits from the Pope, and the locked room in the dressmaker’s house, while political unrest and predatory men cast shadows across this bright portrait. In prose that sparkles with a poet’s touch, Wioletta Greg’s debut animates the strange wonders of growing up.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Bibliography:

• Swallowing Mercury – Read
• Accommodations

Wioletta Greg is also a poet and have majority of her work done in this field.