Whitehorn's Windmill: Or, the Unusual Events Once Upon a Time in the Land of Paudruve (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789639776715)

Because of his political views, Kazys Boruta spent years in prison both before and after WWII. In the last phase of his life in Soviet Lithuania, he earned a living by translations published under a pseudonym.

Most of Whitehorn's Windmill (Baltaragio malūnas) was written in 1942, during the German occupation. Bearing a lyrical style that gives full rein to the oral folktale tradition Lithuania is famous for, the novel is by turns romantic, farcical, fantastic, and tragic. The sense of spirituality that permeates the work reflects Lithuania's pagan roots that were overlaid with an occasionally over-zealous Catholicism not so very long ago.

The story is about Whitehorn the miller's efforts to find a match for his beautiful daughter, Jurga, against various calamities with and among suitors, neighbors, priests and other inhabitants of the village, and ultimately against the devil's spell. The interesting plot made the novel popular as juvenile literature, too.

Author: Kazys Boruta
ISBN-10: 9639776718
ISBN-13: 9789639776715
Publisher: Central European University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/10/2009
Pages: 284
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.00w x 0.80d