Synopses & Reviews
A single streetcar line runs around the sleepy square of an unnamed city. One day—out of nowhere—refugees pour from the streetcar and set up camp in the square. The residents grow hostile and eventually take extreme action.
Magdalena Tulli’s novels include Moving Parts, Dreams and Stones,and In Red. Dreams and Stones won Poland’s Koscielski Foundation Prize in 1995, and Moving Parts was shortlisted for the 2002 NIKE Prize. Tulli lives in Warsaw.
Bill Johnston is director of the Polish Studies Center at Indiana University. In 2005, he won an ASTEEL translation prize for Tulli’s Dreams and Stones.
Synopsis
Refugees cause a surreal disruption in a quiet suburb. A prescient allegory of extermination.
Synopsis
A single streetcar line runs around the sleepy suburban square of an unnamed city. One day—out of nowhere—a group of hapless refugees pour from the streetcar and set up camp in the square. The residents grow hostile to the disruption and chaos, and eventually take matters into their own hands... Flaw is Tullis most intense and personally motivated work to date, while still retaining the signature mind-and word-play so admired by critics and her growing readership.
About the Author
Magdalena Tulli's other novels include Dreams and Stones and Moving Parts, nominated for the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and In Red. Flaw has been shortlisted for the 2007 Nike Prize, Poland's most prestigious literary award. Tulli is also the translator of Proust and Calvino into Polish. She lives in Warsaw.
Bill Johnston is the Chair of the Comparative Literature Department at Indiana University. His translations include Wies?aw My?liwski¢s Stone Upon Stone, and Magdalens Tulli¢s Dreams and Stones, Moving Parts, and In Red. His 2008 translation of Tadeusz Ró?ewicz¢s new poems won the inaugural Found in Translation Prize and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Poetry Award.