Karolina Macios

MY CAT’S LIFE IS GONE TO THE DOGS
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Has Ada settled down after all she’d gone through? Is she complacently enjoying her professional and romantic success? Hell no! The sequel to Ada’s story opens with an Armageddon (or the news about the arrival from Spain of José’s aunt, a tradition-loving, nosey and utterly horrid creature, with whom Ada will definitely not see eye to eye), to close with nothing less than… Revelation.

            In the meantime there is so much going on that it takes one like Ada, quirky, ironic and inquisitive, to even survive it all. A dog enters the scene (with a lovely, albeit a little dirty name), the cat falls in love with the dog, Ada is still in love with José, and he with Ada, but she must fight over him with El Torreador; José and other men are suspected of cheating, and the girls practice their independence and power on the local policeman, under the supervision of the not-so-great-at-being-alert Ada. Plus, Ewka’s family life is in an uproar because of some condoms past their best-before date, a Cracovian hairdresser displays her genius, and Mum is having the time of her life in a spa, while back at her place two young women wage a totally unprofessional war on cockroaches. Would you survive all this and live to tell the tale?

            As usual, the trusted old bars in Kazimierz are a lot of help, as are a number of new addresses which no self-respecting woman can do without.

            In My Cat’s Life Is Gone to the Dogs the author treats her unruly main character and her messy life without an anaesthetic, and mercilessly holds to scrutiny the reality we live in, making you want to weep with laughter.

About the author:

It is not important how old she is, it is important that she has written her fi rst novel, and even more important that it is not going to be the last one… She lives in Krakow, holds a very frivolous attitude towards life, keeps a cat-psycho, a mad dog and a husband. In her free time she runs the fi ction department at Znak Publishers, where she reads tons of more or less valuable literature.

Also by this author:

My Cat and the Sweethearts