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On the path to self-discovery, a woman encounters secrets, shame, and independence in post-Communist Poland.
Judas
I det sena 1950-talets Jerusalem söker den unge bibelforskaren Shmuel nya vägar i livet efter att ha övergetts av sin flickvän och tappat lusten för studierna. Han tar anställning som assistent och samtalspartner hos Gershom Wald, en ärrad och sängliggande intellektuell som betalat ett högt pris för det han tror på. I huset finns även svärdottern Atalia, som mist sin man i självständighetskriget 1948. Atalia är lockande och avståndstagande på samma gång och Schmuel dras ohjälpligt till henne, trots att ett anställningsvillkor var att han inte skulle förälska sig. Parallellt med att hans besatthet tilltar fördjupas relationen mellan honom och Gershom och Shmuel ställs...
Swallowing Mercury
Wiola lives in a close-knit agricultural community. Wiola has a black cat called Blackie. Wiola's father was a deserter but now he is a taxidermist. Wiola's mother tells her that killing spiders brings on storms. Wiola must never enter the seamstress's 'secret' room. Wiola collects matchbox labels. Wiola is a good Catholic girl brought up with fables and nurtured on superstition. Wiola lives in a Poland that is both very recent and lost in time. Swallowing Mercury is about the ordinary passing of years filled with extraordinary days. In vivid prose filled with texture, colour and sound, it describes the adult world encroaching on the child's. From childhood to adolescence, Wiola dances to the strange music of her own imagination.
Four Minutes
Giving voice to people living on the periphery in post-communist Bulgaria, Four Minutes centers around Leah, an orphan who suffered daily horrors growing up, and now struggles to integrate into society as a gay woman. She confronts her trauma by trying to volunteer at the orphanage, and to adopt a young girl--a choice that is frustrated over and over by bureaucracy and the pervasive stigma against gay women. In addition to Leah's narrative, the novel contains nine other standalone character studies of other frequently ignored voices. These sections are each meant to be read in approximately four minutes, a nod to a social experiment that put forth the hypothesis that it only takes four minutes of looking someone in the eye and listening to them in order to accept and empathize with them. A meticulously crafted social novel, Four Minutes takes a difficult, uncompromising look at modern life in Eastern Europe.
Land of Cockaigne
A novel written as a sharp parable of American society, addressing love, purpose, discrimination, and poverty. In Jeffrey Lewis’s novel, the Land of Cockaigne, once an old medieval peasants’ vision of a sensual paradise on earth, is reimagined as a plot on the coast of Maine. In efforts to assuage their grief over their son’s death and to make meaning of his life, Walter Rath and Catherine Gray build what they hope will be a version of paradise for a group of young men from the Bronx. As Walter and Catherine work to reinvent this land, formerly a summer resort, the surrounding town of Sneeds Harbor proves resistant. The residents’ well-meaning doubts lead to well-hidden threats, and ...
Finite Formulae & Theories of Chance
Translated from the Polish; paralle text in English and original Polish.
Polish Culture in Britain
This edited volume explores the historical, cultural and literary legacies of Polish Britain, and their significance for both the British and Polish nations. The focus of the book is twofold. First, it investigates the history of Polish immigration and the ways in which Polish immigrants have conceptualised their own experiences and encounters with Britain and the British. Second, it examines how Poles and Poland have been represented by Anglophone writers in both fictional and non-fictional forms of discourse. Inevitably, these issues are intertwined. Polish experiences of Britain have been shaped, in part, by British ideas about Poland, just as British notions of Poland have been transformed by the emergence of large and culturally active Polish communities in the UK. By studying these issues together, this volume develops a wide-ranging and original analysis of Polish Britain.
Unreife Früchte
In ihrem autobiographischen Roman erzählt Wioletta Greg in unvergesslichen poetischen Bildern eine mal groteske, mal herzzerreißende Coming-of-Age-Geschichte im Polen der 1970er- und 1980er-Jahre. Seit 1981 herrscht das Kriegsrecht unter General Jaruzelski, aber die großen politischen Ereignisse wirken sich nur gebrochen auf das Leben im schlesischen Dorf Hektary aus. Dort, in einer ganz wunderbar vermittelten Atmosphäre aus Alltag in der Großfamilie, Mit ländlichen, fast heidnischen Bräuchen, einem sehr schlichten Katholizismus und kruden Sozialismus, schlägt sich die vitale, schlagfertige und neugierige Wiolka mit ihrer Mutter herum, entdeckt ihre Sexualität, nicht immer ganz freiwillig, und bemüht sich um den geliebten Vater, der viel zu früh stirbt. Als es heißt, der Papst wolle bei seinem historischen Polenbesuch auch an Hektary vorbeifahren, herrscht im Dorf Aufregung wie nie zuvor. Der Papst nimmt am Ende einen anderen Weg.
Pamięć Smieny
This first collection from one of Poland's most promising poets spans the course of an already rich publishing career, covering her childhood and the experience of growing up in post-Communist Poland to her most recent struggles with life in England and the continuation of her existence as a woman of letters on foreign soil. This is the first time her work has been published in English, representing an important moment for contemporary poetry produced outside of Poland. The book also contains the poems in the original Polish.
Les Fruits encore verts
Les Fruits encore verts est un portrait riche, subtil et texturé de la vie rurale dans la Pologne communiste des années 1970 et 1980. Par le regard d’une enfant au seuil de l’adolescence, on pénètre un monde où les superstitions n’ont pas disparu des sovkhozes et où la religion, voire certains rites païens, coexistent avec les directives du parti. Dans cet univers où les hommes et les femmes semblent mener des vies parallèles, la solidarité des femmes entre elles s’exerce autour de traditions parfois folkloriques dont Wioletta Greg, tout en nuances et en clair-obscur, peint avec subtilité l’humanité. Malgré ses apparences de bourgade assoupie, ce village cache bien des...
