Books set in Poland (53)


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Shosha by Isaac Bashevis Singer EN

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Country: Europe / Poland flag Poland
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It is Warsaw in the 1930s. Aaron Greidinger is an aspiring young writer and the son of a rabbi, who struggles to be true to his art when he is faced with the chance of riches and a passport to America. But as the Nazis threaten to invade Poland, Aaron rediscovers Shosha, his childhood sweetheart - still living on Krochmalna Street, still strangely childlike - who has been waiting for him all these years. In the face of unimaginable horror, he chooses to stay... One of Isaac Bashevis Singer's most personal works, Shosha is an unforgettable novel about conflicted desires, lost lives and the rede... continue

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Sobre Los Huesos de Los Muertos by Olga Tokarczuk ES

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Poland flag Poland
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"Un cazador furtivo muere en un bosque de Polonia, y alrededor de su cadáver se descubren huellas de origen animal. Nadie les da importancia, salvo una profesora jubilada, lectora y traductora de William Blake. Pero a medida que otras personas mueren, y que el bosque se llena de individuos extraños, alguien debe investigar quién es el ser que se atreve a atacar a los habitantes más violentos del pueblo"--Back cover.

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Sonka by Ignacy Karpowicz ES

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Poland flag Poland
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La historia sencilla e intensa de la nueva novela de Ignacy Karpowicz reflexiona sobre el dolor, el amor y la muerte, pero también sobre la forma en la que la literatura. El Mercedes del prometedor dramaturgo Igor Grycowski se estropea en Królowe Stojło, un recóndito pueblo del este de Polonia. Este hecho casual propicia el encuentro del joven autor con Sonka, una solitaria y aparentemente insignificante anciana a la que se le ofrece la inesperada oportunidad de mostrar el mayor de sus tesoros: la historia de su vida. Una desdichada historia de guerra, de tragedia, de amo... continue


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Swallowing Mercury by Wioletta Grzegorzewska EN

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A celebrated debut that animates the strange wonders of childhood in rural Poland, longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.

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Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski EN

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Poland, 1980. Anxious, disillusioned Ludwik Glowacki, soon to graduate university, has been sent along with the rest of his class to an agricultural camp. Here he meets Janusz - and together, they spend a dreamlike summer swimming in secluded lakes, reading forbidden books - and falling in love.

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Swimming in the Dark : A Novel by Tomasz Jedrowski EN

Rating: 3 (3 votes)
Country: Europe / Poland flag Poland
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"When university student Ludwik meets Janusz at a summer agricultural camp, he is fascinated yet wary of this handsome, carefree stranger. But a chance meeting by the river soon becomes an intense, exhilarating, and all-consuming affair. After their camp duties are fulfilled, the pair spend a dreamlike few weeks camping in the countryside, bonding over an illicit copy of James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room. Inhabiting a beautiful natural world removed from society and its constraints, Ludwik and Janusz fall deeply in love. But in their repressive communist and Catholic society, the passion they sh... continue

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Taksim by Andrzej Stasiuk ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Poland flag Poland
Description:
Dos amigos recorren el este de Europa con una camioneta desvencijada, siempre a punto de reventar y dejarlos tirados en la cuneta de alguna de las innumerables fronteras que cruzan para vender ropa de segunda mano de los países occidentales. Con una ironía mordaz, Andrzej Stasiuk traza el periplo de ambos personajes por los lugares más pobres y asombrosos, donde colocar sus prendas resulta cada vez más complicado a causa de la competencia de los productos chinos. Un apasionante cuadro de los márgenes de la sociedad de consumo en Europa, donde la vida cambia a... continue

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Tears of Amber by Sofia Segovia EN

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Arno Schipper and Ilse Hahlbrock grow up, unaware of each other, in different parts of Prussia during World War II, and take flight with their families when the region ceases to exist as a part of Germany at the end of the war.

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The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Poland flag Poland
Description:
Reissued with an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a stunning and disquieting novel of heroism and cowardice A masterful novel that was a huge bestseller in Europe, The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman is a testament to the power of literature. Now with an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who named it her "favorite book no one else has heard of" in the New York Times, the novel follows Irma Seidenman, a young Jewish widow in Nazi-occupied Warsaw in 1943, who possesses two attributes that can spell the difference between life and death: blue eyes and blond hair. With these features, an... continue