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The Devil's Chain
In the half-century before Poland’s long-awaited political independence in 1918, anxiety surrounding the country’s burgeoning sex industry fueled nearly constant public debate. The Devil’s Chain is the first book to examine the world of commercial sex throughout the partitioned Polish territories, uncovering a previously hidden conversation about sexuality, gender propriety, and social class. Keely Stauter-Halsted situates the preoccupation with prostitution in the context of Poland’s struggle for political independence and its difficult transition to modernity. She traces the Poles’ growing anxiety about white slavery, venereal disease, and eugenics by examining the regulation of ...
Dancing Bears
'One of the truest and most beautiful things I've read.’ Tim Flannery I used to bottle-feed my father’s two bears. When my son was born, they were kept together. There were plenty of times when I got it wrong—the baby drank from the bear’s bottle, and the bear from his. So when they fired me from the collective farm, I knew one thing: if I wanted to go on living, I had to find a bear. A brilliant, funny and heartbreaking account of people in formerly Communist countries who are nostalgic for how they used to live. For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to dance, welcoming them into their families and taking them on the road to perform. In the early 2000s, after the fa...
The War that Never Ends
The story of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk epitomizes one of the most important and dramatic clashes in the European culture of memory and public history in last decades. The museum became the arch-enemy for the nationalist right-wing as “cosmopolitan”, “pseudo-universalistic”, “pacifistic” and “not Polish enough”. Paweł Machcewicz, historian and museum`s founding director, was removed from his position by the Law and Justice government immediately after opening the museum to the public. In his book he presents this story as a part of cultural wars that tear apart not only Poland but also many countries in Europe and on other continents.
Aksamitna młodość
Jeśli raz pozwoli się na zło, ono wraca, by zebrać kolejne żniwo… Na obrzeżach Gniezna policjanci odkrywają zwłoki Piotra Nowaka, znanego i powszechnie szanowanego urzędnika, zamordowanego w brutalny sposób. Sprawę prowadzą komisarz Michał Fuks oraz psycholog policyjny Jan Witold. Z każdym dniem staje się jasne, że ujęcie zabójcy będzie znacznie trudniejsze, niż zakładali oni na początku. Nowak najwyraźniej nie był wzorem do naśladowania: w jego życiorysie policjanci odkrywają szantaż, gwałt, pranie brudnych pieniędzy, porwanie dziecka, gejowskie układy, a wszystko to pod przykrywką luksusowego stylu życia. Podejrzanych przybywa niemal tak samo szybko, jak pytań bez odpowiedzi. Czy orientacja seksualna denata ma związek z jego śmiercią? Jak wiele osób zginie, nim uda się dotrzeć do prawdy? Ile jest w stanie zapłacić człowiek, by ukryć przed całym światem swoją prawdziwą twarz?
