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Lublin - Manya Wilkinson

Lublin

By: Manya Wilkinson

Paperback | 6 February 2024

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Winner of the Wingate Literary Prize

Longlisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize, United States and Canada

Elya is the lad with the vision, and Elya has the map. Ziv and Kiva aren¢t so sure. The water runs out long before they find the Village of Lakes. The food runs out well before the flaky crescent pastries of Prune Town. They never reach the Village of Girls (how disappointing); they do stumble into Russian Town, rumoured to be a dangerous place for Jews (it is). As three young boys set off from Mezritsh with a case of bristle brushes to sell in the great market town of Lublin, wearing shoes of uneven quality and possessed of decidedly unequal enthusiasms, they quickly find that nothing, not Elya¢s jokes nor Kiva¢s prayers nor Ziv¢s sublime irritatingness, can keep the maw of history from closing bloodily around them. Absurd, riveting, alarming, hilarious, the dialogue devastatingly sharp and the pacing extraordinary, Lublin is the sort of journey into nothingness that changes everything it touches.

Industry Reviews
'Lublin has a truly individual flavour. Beautifully written, well-paced, rhythmical, sad, funny. It was a real pleasure to read it.' David Almond ---- 'Wilkinson is a superb comic writer. She's also gifted in startling poetic compression, turning on a sixpence to move into moments of horror and prophecy. Reading Lublin, you have to laugh; you want to look away from what follows, but you can't.' Sean O'Brien ---- 'Mercurial, hilarious, terrifying, a sustained song to the lost, Lublin is a masterpiece. Prepare to be enchanted.' Sinead Morrissey ---- 'A true boy's own adventure with a deep heart set against a backdrop of ferocious world events, Lublin will charm and devastate readers in equal measure with its compulsive, funny and moving prose. Manya Wilkinson has given us a fable-like story whose characters live and breathe through the ages to speak to us of childhood dreams and the inequities of war today.' Preti Taneja ---- Praise for Manya Wilkinson's Ocean Avenue: 'With a wry wit that recalls Woody Allen, Wilkinson confidently and evocatively blends the historical and personal into a disturbing yet funny tale.' Publishers Weekly

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