Wieslaw Mysliwski

• Nov-2025
• / Literary
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A rich, polyphonic novel from one of the leading voices of contemporary Polish literature, encompassing a half-century of history and memory In a Polish village, a young man watches an old man trip and fall down a flight of stairs. From this sin...

• Dec-2013
• / Political Thriller
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Our hero and narrator is the aging caretaker of cottages at a summer resort. A mysterious visitor inspires him to share the story of his long life: we witness a happy childhood cut short by the war, his hiding from the Nazis buried in a heap of potat...

• Jan-2011
• / Literary
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Winner of the PEN Translation Prize A “sweeping . . . irreverent” masterpiece of postwar Polish literature that “chronicles the modernization of Poland and celebrates the persistence of desire” (The New Yorker)   Hailed as one of the be...

• Dec-1991
• / Literary
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Acclaimed as a classic of contemporary Polish literature and a major achievement by Polish literary critics...a profound and haunting novel, the work of one of Poland's finest contemporary writers. Deep in the Polish countryside, a magnificent palace...