White and Red [electronic resource]
Maslowska, Dorota2015
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An audacious, fresh portrait of marginalized, fatalistic post-Communist youth. Andrzej 'Nails' Robakoski is a tracksuited slacker who spends most of his time searching for his next line of speed and dreaming up conspiracy theories about the national economy. Dumped by his girlfriend Magda, a beautiful seductress, he turns to Angela, a proselytizing vegetarian Goth, and then to Natasha, a hellcat who tears his house apart looking for speed, followed by Ala, the nerdy economics student who was the girlfriend of the friend who stole Magda. In the background, a xenophobic campaign against the growing Russian black market escalates, resulting in citizens painting their houses in national colours, and a pageant to crown one of the girls as Miss No Russkies... or did it all just happen in Nails' fevered mind?
With inventive and visceral language that is by turns poetic, hilarious, disturbing and dirty, White and Red is a powerful portrait of love, hopelessness and political burnout in contemporary Eastern Europe.
Main title:
White and Red [electronic resource] / Dorota Maslowska
Author:
Maslowska, Dorota, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Atlantic Books, 2015
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Dorota Maslowska is a Polish writer and journalist. She is the author of White and Red, published by Atlantic Books
ISBN:
9781782396642
Language:
English
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BRN:
2907604
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