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The equestrienne
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- Book Synopsis
- It is 1984 and a small town somewhere in the east of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic is in the firm grip of totalitarianism. Karolina, a teenage runaway who never knew her father and who grew up in an untraditional family full of strange women, discovers a riding school on the edge of town. There, she gets to know the physically handicapped Romana and Matilda, a rider and trainer. Matilda begins to coach the two girls in the art of trick riding, an almost unknown sporting discipline, and they found a successful trick riding team. However, the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 and the subsequent arrival of capitalism threatens to destroy the riding school.
- About The Author
- UrŠula Kovalyk is a poet, fiction writer, playwright and social worker. She was born in 1969 in KoŠice, eastern Slovakia and currently lives in the capital, Bratislava. She has worked for a women's non-profit focusing on women's rights and currently works for the NGO Against the Current, which helps homeless people. She is the director of the Theatre With No Home, which features homeless and disabled actors. She has published plays, short stories and novels, and was shortlisted for the Anasoft Litera 2014 for Krasojazdkyña (The Equestrienne).
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781910901519
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Parthian, (15 July 2016)
- Number of Pages
- 81
- Weight
- 80 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 203 x 127 x 6 mm
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