Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited
Publish date: 20 March 2025
Pages: 592
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Subjects: Fiction, Anthologies (multiple authors), Classics, Literary, Short Stories (single author), World Literature, Poland, Literary Collections, European, Eastern
A revelatory and richly varied collection of Poland's greatest short stories, with a foreword by Nobel Prize-winner Olga TokarczukThe stories include 'Miss Winczewska', by the acclaimed twentieth-century writer Maria Dabrowska (1889--1965), based on her experience of helping to establish a library for soldiers at the Citadel military base in Warsaw in the interwar period; and 'In the Shadow of Brooklyn' by Stanislaw Dygat (1914--1978), the comical tale of a young man's envy of what he imagines to be his father's success with women. At the contemporary end, it includes a story by Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk (1962), 'The Green Children', a historical story set in 1656, narrated by a Scottish doctor who, as the Polish king's physician, travels about the wilds of Poland and encounters two feral children. Curated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, this anthology is a refreshing and glorious new collection of the best in Polish literature.
