Andrzej Szczypiorski, Author Grove/Atlantic $18.95 (188p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1173-9
A medieval outbreak of witch-burning and anti-Semitism provides the basis for Polish novelist Szczypiorski's ( The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman ) stunning political allegory of the ever-present danger of totalitarianism. In 1461, after losing a fifth of
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Andrzej Szczypiorski, Author, Bill Johnson, Translator Grove/Atlantic $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1567-6
Amid the spiritual exhaustion of post-communist Poland, Szczpiorski's everyman Polish hero, Kamil, sums up and relives all his romances in a last-ditch effort to find redemption. A survivor of the tyrannies of Hitler and Stalin, as well as of the...
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Andrzej Szczypiorski, Author, Klara Glowczewska, Translator Grove/Atlantic $16.95 (204p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1140-1
For the reader seeking immersion in recent Polish history, this intensely Catholic, unabashedly patriotic European bestseller is a rare find. The central incident is the arrest of Mrs. Seidenman, a Jewish widow living under an assumed identity in...
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Andrzej Szczypiorski, Author, Bill Johnston, Translator Grove/Atlantic $21 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1601-7
With the same exquisite prose and psychological acuity that he brought to A Mass for Arras and Self-Portrait with Woman, Polish novelist and playwright Szczypiorski narrates the story of Krzystof, a sensitive, overprotected, naive 15-year-old boy...
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