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The novel has a nonlinear narrative written from multiple viewpoints. A fantasy novel originally written for the annual writing competition National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) over the span of three competitions. This copy is signed and inscribed by the author (on the page after the copyright page). Her most recent collection of short stories, Čisté zviera (A Pure Animal), appeared in 2018.Hardcover. 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. She was born in 1969 in Košice, eastern Slovakia and currently lives in the capital, Bratislava.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Uršuľa Kovalyk is a poet, fiction writer, playwright and social worker. 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. 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 rainforests that souls can lose themselves in forever. He lay in the grass, clutching a piece of dirty plastic in his tiny baby hands.īlending the naturalistic and the fabulistic, these elusive, delicate stories fold fable and fairy tale into the everyday, domestic settings of kitchen, garden, car. I found him one morning when I went to take out the rubbish. Shortlisted author for Slovakia’s prestigious Anasoft Litera Award.They are bold and experimental fiction which, at their best, read like Angela Carter’s Bloody Chamber for the Fleabag age.' - New Welsh Review 'The stories in The Night Circus, Kovalyk’s third collection, are dark, graphic and restlessly odd.

‘.riotous, funny and painful’ - European Literature Network on Kovalyk

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