Hela: A Novel of Science, Faith, Love and Poland - Samborska, Anna
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A comic medical thriller set in modern Poland. An impoverished, God-fearing woman strives to keep her dignity in the world of the rich, the beautiful and the learned. Seeking health care, Hela becomes entrapped at a giant corporation's secretive research center, where she is transformed against her will in unimaginable ways. Trying to find out what's happening to her and regain control of her life she encounters a variety of people and tries to discover which are her friends and which are her enemies before it's too late. A tragic yet comic tale of a woman coping with a world she does not understand.…mehr

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A comic medical thriller set in modern Poland. An impoverished, God-fearing woman strives to keep her dignity in the world of the rich, the beautiful and the learned. Seeking health care, Hela becomes entrapped at a giant corporation's secretive research center, where she is transformed against her will in unimaginable ways. Trying to find out what's happening to her and regain control of her life she encounters a variety of people and tries to discover which are her friends and which are her enemies before it's too late. A tragic yet comic tale of a woman coping with a world she does not understand.
Autorenporträt
Anna Samborska is an author, journalist and translator born and raised in Poland, living in San Francisco. "Hela" is her debut novel. She has published magazine articles in "Gazeta Wyborcza", "Tylko Rock", "Teatr", "Scena", "Zycie Warszawy". Translator: "The Haunted Land - Facing Europe's Ghosts after Communism" (Tina Rosenberg, Pulitzer Prize 1996, Rebis Poland 1997) and "The Auschwitz Photographer" (Anna Dobrowolska, Rekontrplan Film Group 2015).