Someone (hard to see who) on a white unicorn | wWheel of literature | discussion

The little girl’s dad died after an illness, her grandfather was killed in the war, and her mother survived the depression. The little girl is impatiently waiting for the resurrection of her dad and the end of the war, fully convinced of her own and her mother’s immortality.

To make the time of this waiting more interesting, the little one learns to read, fly, understand the language of plants and unicorns, and takes vocal lessons from African elephants. During her trips to Africa, she leaves one of her many doubles instead, so that her mother won’t worry about her sudden disappearance.

The girl wants to understand this strange world and its Creator, so she is very interested in astronomy and religious studies.

– She uses a vocabulary beyond her several years of age,” a child psychiatrist tells her mother.

I wrote a novel about this girl and her mother, in which I presented a child’s surprising perspective on a variety of issues affecting our lives, difficult in some ways even for adults: xenophobia and tolerance, life and death, war and understanding, religion and science, feminism, children’s rights, mental health and many others. Despite the difficult experiences of the heroines and the difficult topics they discuss, there is a lot of hope, faith and love for life in all its forms between the lines.

Anastasia from Mariupol – A savage woman from the East and a recipient of the City of Torun’s 2024 Cultural Scholarship. A singer and one of the “50 Bold Women” 2022 according to High Heels.
Author of the novel “Someone (hard to see who) on a white unicorn”.
Creator of the “Coj po polsku” project (compilation of songs by the legend of anti-regime rock from the USSR in Polish).

In our new series “wKoło literatury” we will discuss various literary texts in the form of an open discussion. A free conversation with authors from the Kuyavian-Pomeranian region will become an excellent opportunity to share their insights, interpretations and reflections on their books.