Books set in Poland (82)
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Swallowing Mercury by Wioletta Grzegorzewska EN
PolandDescription:
A celebrated debut that animates the strange wonders of childhood in rural Poland, longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.
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Swimming in the Dark : A Novel by Tomasz Jedrowski EN
GermanyDescription:
"When university student Ludwik meets Janusz at a summer agricultural camp, he is fascinated yet wary of this handsome, carefree stranger. But a chance meeting by the river soon becomes an intense, exhilarating, and all-consuming affair. After their camp duties are fulfilled, the pair spend a dreamlike few weeks camping in the countryside, bonding over an illicit copy of James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room. Inhabiting a beautiful natural world removed from society and its constraints, Ludwik and Janusz fall deeply in love. But in their repressive communist and Catholic society, the passion they sh... continue
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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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Tears of Amber by Sofia Segovia EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
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Arno Schipper and Ilse Hahlbrock grow up, unaware of each other, in different parts of Prussia during World War II, and take flight with their families when the region ceases to exist as a part of Germany at the end of the war.
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Tehran Children : A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey by Mikhal Dekel EN
IsraelDescription:
Author Mikhal Dekel’s father, Hannan Teitel, and her aunt Regina were two of these refugees. After they fled the town in eastern Poland where their family had been successful brewers for centuries, they endured extreme suffering in the Soviet forced labor camps known as “special settlements.” Then came a journey during which tens of thousands died of starvation and disease en route to the Soviet Central Asian Republics of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. While American organizations negotiated to deliver aid to the hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews who remained there, Dekel’s father and aunt were... continue
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The Art of Resistance by Justus Rosenberg EN
Description:
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
Description:
'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
Description:
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
Description:
“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