Queenless

Mira Marcinów

Translated by Maggie Zebracka

Héloïse Press

Paperback

256pp

ISBN: 9781739751593

Fiction

Publication date: 1 July 2024

£12.95

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In post-Soviet Poland, a young woman tries to fill the space left by
her eccentric mother while struggling to fit in modern life.
Playing with form and content, Queenless is a fierceless story about the desire to live; about great, crazy and greedy love between a mother and a daughter.

Marcinów finds her own language to describe loss
and extreme intimacy: trance-like, strong, witty, yet
trembling, cruelly honest, full of tenderness and longing.