Krysia Jopek
Autor von Maps and Shadows: A Novel
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- Geburtstag
- 1967
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Wohnorte
- Connecticut, USA
- Ausbildung
- University of Connecticut (BA|English)
University of Connecticut (MA|English)
City University of New York (M.Phil|English) - Kurzbiographie
- Krysia Jopek was born in Hartford, Connecticut. She holds three degrees, a BA and MA in English from the University of Connecticut and a M.Phil in English from CUNY Graduate Center. She studied in London her sophomore year of college and attended Semester at Sea in Fall of 1998 before teaching English at CUNY from 1991-2001.
The combination of her travels, education and teaching experience informs her worldview with a global dimension.
She has published poems in various literary journals, including Columbia Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Phoebe, Murmur, Windhover and Artists & Influence, as well as reviews of poetry in The American Book Review, and a review of literary criticism in The Wallace Stevens Journal.
Krysia Jopek lives in Connecticut with her two dogs.
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It's often hard to remember that this is supposed to be fiction and supposed to be told from multiple perspectives. There is a single voice telling the story - or rather, the multiple voices are so similar as to be indistinguishable. The emotions and experiences differ - but the authorial voice is the same.
The prose is heavily narrative, very descriptive. Vivid, beautiful description, both informative and touching - but always narrative rather than experience, always told rather than shown. The book is also surprisingly short: the various vignettes show something of the reality of the family's deportation and lives as soldiers and refugees, but they never really allow much connection with the people.
This is not a bad book. The author is plainly both skilled as a writer and passionate about that part of her family's history. But this book ought to have been written either as a work of non-fiction or as a more heavily fictionalised account. As either, it could have been immensely powerful. As it is, it falls between the two and, while sometimes powerful, more often feels awkward.… (mehr)