Night Circus and Other Stories, The

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Fe wnes i ei ddarganfod un bore pan oeddwn i'n cario'r sbwriel allan. Roedd yn gorwedd yn y glaswellt, yn dal darn o blastig budr yn ei ddwylo baban, ei lygaid ynghau ac yn ymddangos fel pe na bai'n anadlu. Roedd ei ddillad crychlyd fel petaent wedi'u llifoleuo.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

I found him one morning when I went to take out the rubbish. He lay in the grass, clutching a piece of dirty plastic in his tiny baby hands. His eyes were closed and he didn't seem to be breathing. His crumpled clothes were strangely fluorescent.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Uršuľa 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 published the short story collections, Neverné ženy neznášajú vajíčka (Unfaithful Women Lay No Eggs, 2002) and Travesty šou (Travesty Show, 2004), and two novels, Žena zo sekáča (The Second-hand Woman 2008) and Krasojazdkyňa (The Equestrienne, originally published in Slovak in 2013 and in English by Parthian in 2016) was shortlisted for Slovakia's most prestigious literary prize, the Anasoft Litera Award, and received the Bibliotéka Prize for 2013. Her most recent collection of short stories, Čisté zviera (A Pure Animal), appeared in 2018.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Blending the naturalistic and the fabulistic, these elusive, delicate stories fold fable and fairy tale into the everyday, domestic settings of kitchen, garden, car. Women love, and lose, strange creatures they find by the garden gate; dream dogs are liberated from the icy prison of a fridge; bathrooms bloom into rain forests that souls can lose themselves in forever. Seemingly quotidian routines and unremarkable lives are pierced by Kovalyk's precise, sensual prose, to reveal the magic lurking just beneath the surface of the daily skin of existence.