De Poolse schrijfster Olga Tokarczuk is in Sulechów, dichtbij Zielona Góra, geboren op 29 januari 1962. Zie ook mijn blog van 28 januari 2007 en ook mijn blog van 29 januari 2008 en ook mijn blog van 29 januari 2009 en ook mijn blog van 29 januari 2010.
Uit: Runners (Vertaald door Jennifer Croft)
“They’re standing next to each other in the kitchen. Kunicki is dicing up parsley. He doesn’t really want to get into it again, but he can’t restrain himself. He can feel the words swelling up in his throat, and he can’t quite swallow them back down. Meaning the old “Well then what did happen?” yet again.
She says in a tired voice, pointing out in a tone of I’m-reciting-this-yet-again that he’s being boring, that he’s making things difficult, “Here you go, one more time: I didn’t feel well, I think I had food poisoning, I told you.”
But he doesn’t give up so easily. “You didn’t feel sick when you went off,” he says.
“Right, but then I got sick, I got sick,” she repeats, with pleasure. “And I guess I passed out for a minute, and then the baby started crying, and that brought me to again. He was scared, and I was scared, too. We started toward the car, but just because of everything we ended up going the wrong way.”
“Which way? Into town? Toward Vis?”
“Yes, toward Vis. No, I mean, I don’t know, whether toward Vis or not, how was I supposed to know, if I had known, I would have come back, I’ve told you this a thousand times.” She raises her voice. “When I figured out I had gotten us lost, we just sat down in this little grove, and the baby fell asleep. I was still feeling weak…”
Kunicki knows she’s lying. He dices the parsley up and says in a sepulchral voice, not raising his eyes from the cutting board, “There was no grove.”
She just about screams, “Of course there was!”
“No, there wasn’t. All there was were individual olive trees and vineyards. What grove?”
There’s a silence, and then she suddenly says with deadly seriousness, “Okay. You’ve cracked it. Good job. We were carried off by a flying saucer. They did experiments on us. They implanted chips in us, here,” and she lifts up her hair to reveal the nape of her neck. Her gaze is icy.”

Olga Tokarczuk (Sulechów, 29 januari 1962)
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