Basket of Braids by Natalia Litvinova, translated by Kelsi Vanada comedy I enjoyed the authority of

I enjoyed the authority of the voice in service of the natural world and its precarity

She welcomes the reader in

We arrive at the present day

every page bursts with colour

Mario Petrucci reanimates for the English reader all of the moral clarity and sensual abundance of a spiritual and literary master

Basket of Braids by Natalia Litvinova, translated by Kelsi Vanada comedy I enjoyed the authority ofThe title of Basket of Braids forms a surprising image. Why would anyone store braided hair in a basket? The women in my family keep the hair they cut off in a basket of braids. Its an ancient tradition, no one can remember who started it. For Belarusian poet Natalia Litvinova, who immigrated with her family to Buenos Aires at the age of ten, this basket of braids symbolises the strength of the bonds between the rural Slavic women who came before her