Pawel Huelle, Author, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Translator , trans. from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Serpent's Tail $14.95 (250p) ISBN 978-1-85242-980-5
American readers may struggle with this near-future novel from Polish author Huelle (Castorp
), a meandering meditation on contemporary Poland and Europe, in which 12 people prepare to pose for a photograph to be used as the model for a new painting
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Pawel Huelle, Author, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Translator Serpent's Tail $14 (154p) ISBN 978-1-85242-869-3
Written in the form of a letter to Bohumil Hrabal, Huelle's autobiographical novel (complete with personal photographs) is also an homage to the late Czech writer. With long, expressive and visual sentences characteristic of his predecessor's work,...
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Pawel Huelle, trans. from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd Jones. Comma (IPG, dist.) $12.99 (218p) ISBN 9781905583393
This latest volume of stories by Polish author Huelle has a circular structure: the opening and closing stories illuminate the lesser-known historical curiosity of the remote villages populated by Mennonite immigrants from the Netherlands. Huelle's...
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Pawel Huelle, Author, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Translator, Pawe Huelle, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $18.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-15-162731-8
This collection of seven impeccably constructed and moving stories set in Gdansk goes a long way toward defining the Polish national character. For the most part, the narrators are young boys whose parents have strong views about which occupation...
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Pawel Huelle, Author, Michael Kandel, Translator Mariner Books $13 (256p) ISBN 978-0-15-600251-6
Polish writer Huelle presents a collection of short stories mixing mythological and supernatural elements with probings into coming of age in postwar Poland. (Jan.)
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Pawel Huelle, Author, Pawe Huelle, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $17.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-15-196294-5
This strange, almost hypnotic but ultimately unsatisfying novel by a Polish literature professor examines the summer of 1957 in Gdansk. Looking back from the present day, the narrator, Heller, describes how he and his friends, then 11-year-olds,...
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