Baba Jaga je snijela jaje

According to Slavic myth, Baba Yaga is a witch who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. In Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, internationally acclaimed writer Dubravka Ugrešić takes the timeless legend and spins it into a fresh and distinctly modern tale of femininity, aging, identity, and love. Ugrešić weaves together the stories of four women in contemporary Eastern Europe: a writer who grants her dying mother’s final wish by travelling to her hometown in Bulgaria, an elderly woman who wakes up every day hoping to die, a buxom blonde hospital worker who’s given up on love, and a serial widow who harbours a secret talent for writing. Through the women’s fears and desires, and their struggles against invisibility, Ugrešić presents a postmodern retelling of an ancient myth that is infused with humanity and the joy of storytelling.