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...
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...
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...