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Book Description A searing novel from a writer of international stature, The Devil Tree is a tale that combines the existential emptiness of Camus's The Stranger with the universe of international...
Book Description A searing novel from a writer of international stature, The Devil Tree is a tale that combines the existential emptiness of Camus's The Stranger with the universe of international...
Book Description A modern classic now available from Grove Press, Being There is one of the most popular and significant works from a writer of international stature. It is the story of Chauncey G...
Terrific writing, detail, and word usage with a nice flow. Szczypiorski wirtes a terrificly laid out easy flowing story that traces a young boys transition from innocence to his reality of the wor...
From Publishers Weekly: 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 redemp...
Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly: A medieval outbreak of witch-burning and anti-Semitism provides the basis for Polish novelist Szczypiorski's ( The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman ) stunning po...
From Publishers Weekly: 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 arres...
Translated by: Eric Mosbacher and Alastair Hamilton Two absurd, unconventional novels, both set in Poland, by a modern master of Polish literature. Grombrowicz, who lived most of his life in Argent...