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"An exeptionally powerful book...Milosz's personal involvement, his spontaneity and freshness combined with erudition and knowledge of history, philosophy, literature and life...always enlightens and enriches."
(World Literature Today)

About the author:

Czeslaw Milosz is probably the best known contemporary Polish writer, Milosz began his literary career before World War II; he left Poland in 1951 and subsequently settled in the United States. He won the Nobel Prize in 1980.