Voracious follows a year in the life of a young woman caringfor her dying grandmother in the companyof her grandfather, her friend, and animals. The novel is set in a smallvillage which echoes with noises fromthe nearby abattoir and which is threatened by a landslide. The grandfather is renovating a room for hiswife while the women care for one another, for the plants, and for the animals.

 

Malgorzata Lebda guides us through the countryside, the changing  seasons, wildlife, illness, death, andlove. Everything is at once fragile and full of life,...