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Hrabal's postwar classic about a young man's coming of age in German-occupied Czechoslovakia is among his most popular works. Milos Hrma is a timid railroad apprentice who insulates himself with fanta
POLISH POETRY OF THE LAST TWO DACADES OF COMMUNIST RULE-Spoiling Cannibals' Fun
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Edited & Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak & Clare Cavanagh with a Foreward by Helen Vendler The past thirty years have witnessed some of the most traumatic and inspiring moments in Polish history. Th
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THE FAITHFUL RIVER
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Translated from the Polish by Bill JohnstonThe first US edition of a famous Polish novel, originally published in 1912, which vividly portrays an inchoate country's uprising (186364) against its Russi
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MEDALLIONS
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“Nothing of the former world holds true anymore,” Zofia Nalkowskawrote in her Wartime Diaries on 7 May 1943. “Nothing has remained.” The burnig of the Warsaw ghetto has broken Nalkowska’s privileged l
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THROUGH THE POET'S EYE
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Though best known as poets, Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998), Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), and Adam Zagajewski (b. 1945) also wrote some of the most original prose of this century. It is this prose-remarka
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THE SUBTENTANT TO OUTWIT GOD
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This fine volume brings together two pieces by Polish journalist Krall. The first, never before available in English, is an eerie, semi-autobiographical novel detailing the narrator's relationship ove
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A STANISLAW LEM READER
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In A Stanislaw Lem Reader, Peter Swirski has assembled an in-depth and insightful collection of wrightings by and about, and interview with, one of the most fascinating writers on the twentieth centur
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