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A Priceless Nest
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A Priceless Nest

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A Collection of Contemporary Folk and Mythic Tales

from Kristiina Ehin


Kristiina Ehin's work is much loved and honoured in Estonia and her poetry is finding an ever-wider audience of admirers in the English-speaking world and beyond, but the fact that she is also a very gifted writer of prose is not yet well-known outside Estonia.

The stories in this book have their roots in an age-old oral story-telling tradition. They are very singular fairy tales for grown-ups - genuine and many-layered, contemporary, yet at the same time primeval. They have the surreal, fluid quality of dreams.

Ilmar Lehtpere is the translator of The Drums of Silence (Oleander, 2007), awarded the Poetry Society Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation, and several other works by Kristiina Ehin.
 
"No detail in the volatile, sensual writing seems more important than any other, and that with the sometimes unrealness of the characters and situations can make the stories seem flat; but flat like a mosaic, having a cumulative beauty." - Bookmunch (full review here)


"Ehin manages to weave a world of mythical fantasy into a contemporary reality with sublime ease. These surreal folklore/fairy tales are delightfully drawn with emphatic symbolism; they're vivid, extraordinary yarns that suck you into their otherworldliness and allow you to soar and explore their themes. Resonating with honesty and empathy, some are simple langorous fun, others more complex and moralistic. All are intriguing and written with the same flair and imagination - they are beautifully decorative tales and definitely reward consideration of the narrative." - JMG