Books from Poland
96 popular polish books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Poland.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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I'd Like to Say Sorry, But There's No One to Say Sorry To : Stories by Mikolaj Grynberg EN
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An exquisitely original collection of darkly funny stories that explore the panorama of Jewish experience in contemporary Poland, from a world-class contemporary writer "These small, searing prose pieces are moving and unsettling at the same time. If the diagnosis they present is right, then we have a great problem in Poland." --Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize laureate and author of Flights Mikołaj Grynberg is a psychologist and photographer who has been collecting and publishing oral histories of Polish Jews. In his first work of fiction--a book that has been widely praised by critics and was sho... continue
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In My Hands : Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke EN
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Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.
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By the Koscielski Prize-winning author of Dream and Stones, In Red is the gripping cautionary tale in which real and unreal combine explosively, making us question the nature of the work itself. Set in an imaginary fourth partition of Poland, In Red retraces the turbulent history of the Twentieth Century in a labyrinth of greed, inheritance, and entropy, enacting—word by tremulous word—the claustrophobia of a small town from which there seems to be no escape. Never have Tulli's trademark precision of language and her crystalline storytelling been put to such brilliant use.
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Ironbound and Sanctuary City : Two Plays by Martyna Majok EN
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This two-play volume illuminates the often-overlooked lives of immigrants left behind by the "American Dream." With humor, grace, and an unsentimental eye, Majok explores the challenges they face and the joys they will find as they strive to carve out a place in a harsh and indifferent America.
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Jaag je ploeg over de botten van de doden by Olga Tokarczuk NL
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In een afgelegen Pools dorpje vertelt de excentrieke zestiger Janina Duszejko over de dood van haar buurman en de andere vreemde gebeurtenissen van de laatste tijd. Janina leidt een teruggetrokken leven: ze houdt van de natuur, van astrologie en vertaalt de poëzie van William Blake. Wanneer leden van de lokale jachtvereniging dood worden aangetroffen, raakt ze als een Poolse Miss Marple betrokken bij het politieonderzoek.
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Kassandra, die äSeherinä, ist die schillerndste Frauenfigur der griechischen Mythologie. Sie sagte dem übermächtigen Troja den Untergang voraus und musste ihre Prophezeiung mit dem Leben bezahlen.
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La corona del drago : romanzo by Uri Orlev EN
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An epic adventure book, about a kidnapped princess and a not so nice prince in a quest to rescue her.
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Little black bird by Anna Kirchner EN
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Magic is dying out, but it will not disappear without a fight.Wiktoria is a seventeen year old with a secret: she has psychic powers. Her uncontrollable telekinesis hurts her and others, setting fires and throwing objects in the air, no matter how hard she tries to hold it back. All she wants to have is a peaceful, average life, but it's difficult when you've been cursed to destroy the magical world. Her carefully maintained facade of normality starts to unravel when she's hunted down by local sorcerers and their Guardian, and accused of unleashing banished demons back into the human realm. Wh... continue