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Partisans
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Lilia Łada daje czytelnikom kryminał w najbardziej klasycznym rozumieniu prawideł gatunku – z krwawą zbrodnią, rzetelnym śledztwem, pełnowymiarowymi postaciami bohaterów oraz tłem utkanym z szemranych biznesowo-politycznych układów towarzyskich. Ale tym, co decyduje o prawdziwej wartości tej książki, jest umiejętność pokazania mikroklimatu miejskiej instytucji. Owego zamkniętego ekosystemu, rządzącego się własnymi prawami, podporządkowanego swoistym rytuałom – tym formalnym i nieformalnym. Nieodpornego przy tym na typowe dla takich miejsc patologie. Jednocześnie autorka potrafi wybić się w swej powieści ponad lokalne problemy i opowiedzieć uniwersalną historię o zachłanności, małości i cynizmie, które mogą prowadzić do zbrodni. Przemysław Poznański zupelnieinnaopowiesc.com
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Lodz Judaica in old postcards
"Książka zawiera kilkadziesiąt zdjęć prezentujących życie społeczności żydowskiej w Łodzi na początku XX wieku. Album ukazuje specyficzny koloryt miasta, które było jednym z największych skupisk ludności żydowskiej na ziemiach polskich. Na kartach książki odnajdujemy świat, którego już nie ma - nieistniejące ulice, domy, synagogi. Poznajemy sylwetki najwybitniejszych przedstawicieli społeczności żydowskiej. Stare fotografie oddają magię ziemi obiecanej, monumentalność jej fabryk, szpetotę przedmieść i niezwykły urok kamienic. = The book contains several dozen pictures, presenting the life of the Jewish community in Łódź at the beginning of the 20th century. The album renders the distinct color of the town, which used to be one of the largest Jewish centers on the Polish lands. Pages of this book reveal a world that exists no more -non-existing streets, houses, synagogues. We learn about most prominent members of the Jewish community. The old photographs render the magic of the "Promised Land", the monumentality of the manufactures, the ugliness of the suburbs and the extraordinary beauty of the tenement houses."--
Maria Szymanowska (1789-1831)
This book examines the career of Polish pianist and composer, Maria Szymanowska (1789-1831), through extensive use of primary source material. After a thorough biography, a comprehensive bibliography lists all of the composer's works and literature, including letters written by Szymanowska, her family, and contemporaries and 19th-century concert reviews, providing important historical context and details about the difficulties and successes of a 19th-century woman musician.
Jerzy Kosinski
He was hailed as one of the world’s great writers and intellectuals, with novels like The Painted Bird and Being There. He was acclaimed as a heroic survivor and witness of the Holocaust. He won high literary awards, made the bestseller lists, taught and lectured in prestigious universities, was feted in high society, and became an intimate of the rich and famous in a jet-set world of glitter and glamour. Then, in an expose that sent shock waves throughout the intellectual community, he was denounced as a C.I.A. tool, a supreme con man, and a literary fraud, igniting a firestorm of controversy that consumed his reputation and culminated in his headline-making suicide. Now this compelling b...
The Book of Basketball
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The wildly opinionated, thoroughly entertaining, and arguably definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA—from the founder of The Ringer and host of The Bill Simmons Podcast “Enough provocative arguments to fuel barstool arguments far into the future.”—The Wall Street Journal In The Book of Basketball, Bill Simmons opens—and then closes, once and for all—every major NBA debate, from the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should...
Gottland
Winner of the Europe Book Prize One of Europe’s most preeminent investigative journalists travels to the Czech Republic—the Czech half of the former Czechoslovakia, the land that brought us Kafka—to explore the surreal fictions and the extraordinary reality of its twentieth century. For example, there’s the story of the small businessman who adopted Henry Ford’s ideas on productivity to create the world’s largest shoe company—and hired modernist giants such as Le Corbusier to design his company towns (which were also the birthplaces of Ivana Trump and Tom Stoppard). Or the story of Kafka’s niece, who loaned her name to writers blacklisted under the Communist regime so they co...
Watercolours
A many-layered work of historical reportage, Watercolours draws on the real life story of Dina Gottliebova-Babbitt (1923-2009), a Czech-American artist of Jewish ancestry, who was a prisoner at Auschwitz, and whose story came to light in the late 1990s. It was at this time that Gottliebova attempted once more to recover the art she had created in the concentration camp, and which had become the property of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The dispute escalated into an international scandal, with the American Department of State and the Polish government becoming involved. Here, journalist Lidia Ostalowska reconstructs Gottliebova's time in the camp, while looking also at broader issues o...
The Painted Bird
Winner of the National Book Award The Painted Bird is one of the most shocking indictments of Nazi madness and terrors of the Holocaust during World War II. It is a story about the proximity of terror and savagery to innocence and love. It is a vivid and graphic portrayal of the hellish Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe as seen through the eyes of a boy struggling for survival, an alien child lost in a world gone mad.
