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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Dos amigos recorren el este de Europa con una camioneta desvencijada, siempre a punto de reventar y dejarlos tirados en la cuneta de alguna de las innumerables fronteras que cruzan para vender ropa de segunda mano de los países occidentales. Con una ironía mordaz, Andrzej Stasiuk traza el periplo de ambos personajes por los lugares más pobres y asombrosos, donde colocar sus prendas resulta cada vez más complicado a causa de la competencia de los productos chinos. Un apasionante cuadro de los márgenes de la sociedad de consumo en Europa, donde la vida cambia a... continue
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The Art of Resistance by Justus Rosenberg EN
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An unforgettable World War II memoir set in Nazi-occupied France and filled with romance and adventure: a former Eastern European Jew remembers his flight from the Holocaust and his extraordinary four years in the French underground. Justus Rosenberg, now 98, has taught literature at Bard College for the past fifty years. In 1937, as the Nazis gained control and anti-Semitism spread in the Free City of Danzig, a majority German city on the Baltic Sea, sixteen-year-old Justus Rosenberg was sent to Paris to finish his education in safety. Three years later, France fell to the Germans. Alone and ... continue
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The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski EN
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Reissued with an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a stunning and disquieting novel of heroism and cowardice A masterful novel that was a huge bestseller in Europe, The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman is a testament to the power of literature. Now with an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who named it her "favorite book no one else has heard of" in the New York Times, the novel follows Irma Seidenman, a young Jewish widow in Nazi-occupied Warsaw in 1943, who possesses two attributes that can spell the difference between life and death: blue eyes and blond hair. With these features, an... continue
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The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenmann by Andrzej Szczypiorski EN
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'Magnificent. Complex, wise, unsentimental and very moving' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 'Dense, lyrical and deeply unsettling' New York Times 'A fine balance between poetic tenderness and an unflinching account of the brutal realities of the day' Guardian 'Extraordinarily original' Los Angeles Times 'The prose is stunning, thanks to a masterful translation by Klara Glowczewska, and the characters are so fully fleshed that they seem to step off the page' NPR 'Grips the reader with the power of a high-class thriller' Frankfurter Rundschau 'All at once she thought that a life is only that which has ... continue
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The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk EN
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The much-anticipated English translation of Olga Tokarczuk’s magnum opus
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The Boy on the Wooden Box : How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List by Leon Leyson EN
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“Much like The Boy In the Striped Pajamas or The Book Thief,” this remarkable memoir from Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holocaust on Oskar Schindler’s list, “brings to readers a story of bravery and the fight for a chance to live” (VOYA). This, the only memoir published by a former Schindler’s list child, perfectly captures the innocence of a small boy who goes through the unthinkable. Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced to relocate to the Krakow ghetto. With incredible luck, perseverance, and ... continue
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The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem EN
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Trurl and Klaupacius are constructor robots who try to out-invent each other. They travel to the far corners of the cosmos to take on freelance problem-solving jobs, with dire consequences for their employers. "The most completely successful of his books... here Lem comes closest to inventing a real universe" (Boston Globe). Illustrations by Daniel Mr--z. Translated by Michael Kandel.
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The Devil Crept In : A Novel by Ania Ahlborn EN
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An unforgettable horror novel from bestselling sensation Ania Ahlborn—hailed as a writer of “some of the most promising horror I’ve encountered in years” (New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire)—in which a small-town boy investigates the mysterious disappearance of his cousin and uncovers a terrifying secret kept hidden for years. Young Jude Brighton has been missing for three days, and while the search for him is in full swing in the small town of Deer Valley, Oregon, the locals are starting to lose hope. They’re well aware that the first forty-eight hours are critical and after tha... continue
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Boleslaw Prus is often compared to Chekhov, and Prus’s masterpiece might be described as an intimate epic, a beautifully detailed, utterly absorbing exploration of life in late-nineteenth-century Warsaw, which is also a prophetic reckoning with some of the social forces—imperialism, nationalism, anti-Semitism among them—that would soon convulse Europe as never before. But The Doll is above all a brilliant novel of character, dramatizing conflicting ideas through the various convictions, ambitions, confusions, and frustrations of an extensive and varied cast. At the center of the book are three... continue
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The Drama of the Gifted Child : The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller EN
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The bestselling book on childhood trauma and the enduring effects of repressed anger and pain Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided millions of readers with an answer--and has helped them to apply it to their own lives. Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skillfully in order to meet our parents' expectations and win their "love." Alice Miller writes, "When I used the word 'gifted' in the title, I had in mind neither children who receive high grade... continue