{"product_id":"kinderland-9781644213278","title":"Kinderland","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Censor's Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel about children whose parents have departed for employment in foreign lands, told through the perspective of a young girl who is responsible for her two brothers.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Corobca's novel not only reports with tenderness and wit on the pain and patience of abandoned children, it also traces the economic, social and moral decay of the rural milieu with wide awake realism.\" --Andreas Breitenstein, \u003ci\u003eNew Zurich\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith her parents gone in search of work, twelve-year-old Cristina must act as a mother to her two younger brothers. Through her eyes, we experience the feeling of wonderment and loneliness as they roam the streets of a contemporary Moldovan village. Her mother has gone to Italy, her father to Siberia, and the children grow up fast, imitating the gestures of the absent adults, and chasing their fading memories of normal family life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eKinderland\u003c\/i\u003e is the second novel by Moldovan novelist Liliana Corobca to be translated into English. The first was \u003ci\u003eThe Censor's Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e (2022), which won the prestigious Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2023, remarkably so since it was also the translator, Monica Cure's, first attempt at a book-length translation. \u003ci\u003eKinderland\u003c\/i\u003e showcases Corobca's signature ability to present grimness in a way that is also so full of life and a love of people, and a kind of curiosity that's gentle and forgiving of people's strangeness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLILIANA COROBCA\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and researcher of communist censorship in Romania. She was born in the Republic of Moldova and is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eNegrissimo\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), winner of the 'Prometheus' Prize for debut fiction. She is also the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Censor's Notebook \u003c\/i\u003e(Seven Stories Press, 2022), which won the 2023 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, \u003ci\u003eA Year in Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), \u003ci\u003eKinderland\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), and \u003ci\u003eThe Old Maids' Empire\u003c\/i\u003e (2015). She has received grants and artists' residencies in Germany, Austria, France, and Poland. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMONICA CURE\u003c\/b\u003e is a Romanian-American writer, translator, and dialogue specialist, as well as a two-time Fulbright grant award winner. Her poetry and translations have been published in journals internationally, and she's the author of the book \u003ci\u003ePicturing the Postcard: A New Media Crisis at the Turn of the Century\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Minnesota Press). Her translation of The Censor's Notebook by Liliana Corobca won the 2023 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize. She is currently based in Bucharest.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725059330322,"sku":"9781644213278","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_80e3dcf5-2ac1-49f5-bda4-725c64aee4e9.jpg?v=1734815624","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/kinderland-9781644213278","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}