![]() ![]() ![]() In a recent interview, she said: ““I’m lucky to have such an empty piece of land to describe because in Polish literature there are no legends or fairy-tales about it.” Nowa Ruda, a Polish mining town of medieval origin, with this history is recreated in Tokarczuk’s House of Day, House of Night. ![]() Olga Tokarczuk lives in rural Lower Silesia, a region of Poland that was first integrated into the country after the Second World War. An ordinary place for one person might be a sacred place for another. Only afterwards does my mind add the spectral presence of people, names and detail. What comes first when I think of the place where I spent my childhood is the uniform, relentless glare of a tropical sun, surrounded by an endless tangle of every shade of green, then comes the encompassing smell of the humid air and the gurgling jungle sounds. It is through the gift of our senses that we conjure up a place. No place carries a stronger spirit of place in our memory than the places where we spent our childhood years. ![]()
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