Kaśka Bryla: My father, the Gulag, the crow, and I

„Summer 2020 is hot and beautiful, yet everywhere fear and insecurity prevail – also at the wagon site where the author lives and fights a severe illness. She draws strength from inner conversations with her father, who was interned in the Gulag as a member of the Polish underground army. His resistance has shaped her. Her own struggle for a self-determined life as a queer woman is similar and yet completely different. But she also finds strength in the stranded crow baby Karl, for whom she cares as long as it cannot fly. Lovingly, laconicly, and sometimes surreal, Kaśka Bryla intertwines recordings of conversations with her father, fever dreams, and loneliness.“ (Source: Residenz Verlag)

Kaśka Bryla presents her novel „My Father, the Gulag, the Crow, and I“ published by Residenz in a literadio interview with Amina Kurbanova.