Do you want to increase the length of your... Nose? Or maybe you are interested in gender change? The Kaliningrad clinic offers not only a new "me". Kaliningrad is the largest city and administrative centre of Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian semi-exclave between Lithuania and Poland. The clinic is a contemporary Tower of Babel, which offers medical services but it is also a multinational space for exchanging views on gender politics and male-female differences.
This book is in fact a set of stories presented by an employee-translator of a plastic surgery clinic in the Kaliningrad region, describing in detail the adventures of clinic patients (mainly Poles) who undergo cosmetic and feminization surgeries.
The book presents situations (from cheerful to almost embarrassing) from the practice of a translator at a successful beauty correction clinic in Kaliningrad. Because fame (and especially affordable prices) attracts volunteers not only from outside the Kaliningrad region, but also from Poland and all over Europe, such a place is a great opportunity to look at both the sometimes surprising motivations of patients and the cultural differences that doctors and their patients often have to struggle with in everyday hospital life, or just smile at them.
The author, a woman of extraordinary intelligence and sense of humor, today a translator and teacher of Polish in Russia, previously spent many years in Poland, so she knows all the peculiarities of the Polish language. She can boast a flavor of the Russian anarchist soul (or is it a matter of familiarity with military humor?), which lacks any inhibitions as to what should or should not be talked about in the book.
Available via lubimyczytac.pl
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