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Kalina uważa, że facetowi więcej wolno. Bochenek tęskni za PGR-em. Stefania nigdy nie była w Warszawie, Gosia chce stamtąd wrócić. Chrześnica Iwony jest lesbijką, Marta była na czarnym proteście, a Dorota wysłuchuje żartów o swojej bezdzietności. Wiola nie zna nikogo, kto powiedziałby „nie wierzę w Boga”, a Piotrowska zdradza, co słyszy w konfesjonale. Autorki ruszają z Warszawy i okrążają województwo mazowieckie, rozmawiając po drodze z rolniczkami, gospodyniami, sklepowymi, przedsiębiorczyniami, bezrobotnymi. Na ławeczkach, podwórkach, gankach, przy kuchennych stołach, słuchają opowieści o życiu w miejscach, skąd młodzież wyjeżdża do szkół, a mężczyźni na zarobek, gdzie starsze pokolenie umiera, a młode często już nie wraca. To próba oddania głosu tym, które pozostają niewidoczne i niesłyszane. Wieś przemawia na ogół co najwyżej głosem rolnika szukającego żony, polityka PSL-u lub wójta i księdza z popularnego serialu. A co z kobietami?
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Family and Artistic Relations in Polish Women’s Autobiographical Literature examines women’s autobiographical works published in Poland after the year 2000 in a broader cultural context. This volume focuses on the writers’ representation of their relationships with their mothers – many of them traumatized survivors of historical cataclysms, many of them professional artists, many of them struggling to reconcile their creative work with their role as wife and mother. Grzemska sheds light not only on the literary strategies used by the memoirists, but she also helps us understand women’s struggles for an independent voice, for new models of commemoration, for healing. This book will interest readers in literary and cultural studies, as well as anyone who wishes to better understand Poland’s cultural transformations in the post-Communist era.
A startling, honest, laugh and cry novel about growing up and leaving home, only to find that you've taken it with you, Snowflake is a novel for a generation, and for everyone who's taken those first, terrifying steps towards adulthood.
A life hanging in the balance…a family torn apart. The #1 internationally bestselling author Jodi Picoult tells an unforgettable story about family secrets, love, and letting go. On an icy winter night, a terrible accident forces a family divided to come together and make a fateful decision. Cara, once protected by her father, Luke, is tormented by a secret that nobody knows. Her brother, Edward, has secrets of his own. He has kept them hidden, but now they may come to light, and if they do, Cara will be devastated. Their mother, Georgie, was never able to compete with her ex-husband’s obsessions, and now, his fate hangs in the balance and in the hands of her children. With conflicting motivations and emotions, what will this family decide? And will they be able to live with that decision, after the truth has been revealed? What happens when the hope that should sustain a family is the very thing tearing it apart?
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