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| Author: | Title: | Description: |
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| Bienczyk, M. | Tworki | This novel takes place during WWII, when 21 year-old Jurek works in a mental health asylum hiding from the horrors of the German occupation. He finds friends there but soon they start to disappear and nobody knows where to… |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2008. Price: £13.50 | ||
| Czechowska, J. | The Black Madonna of Derby | The story of a Polish family living in Britain since 1964, tracking the events of a grandmother who returns to Poland and suffers under Communism, a mother trying to overcome wartime memories, and the new generation struggling to reconcile their British and Polish identities. A must-read for anyone who has lived in Britain. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2008. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Goerke, N. | Farewells to plasma | Collection of surreal and absurd short stories by one of the most popular Polish prose writers of the past ten years who have attracted much delight and bewilderment in her homeland. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Gombrowicz, W. | Ferdydurke | In this bitterly funny novel, the hero narrates a story of his absurd transformation from a confident 30-years-old man into a paranoid teenage boy… |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2005. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Gombrowicz, W. | Pornografia | Philosophical novel that revolves around two old men visiting a country estate in the occupied Poland of 1943 is recognized as a modern classic. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 1994. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Grabinski, S. | In Sarah's house | Set among the villages and small towns of Poland around the start of the 20th century, these tales of the supernatural are written with an abounding lyricism that accentuates their elements of horror and fantasy. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2007. Price: £7.50 | ||
| Huelle, P. | Castorp | A novel loosely based on motifs from the works of Thomas Mann. The protagonist falls in love with a mysterious Polish woman and discovers the darkest recesses of his soul. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2007. Price: £8.99 | ||
| Huelle, P. | The last supper | A playful, bittersweet and absurd humour story of twelve men who have been invited to take part in a photographic session for a modern version of "The Last Supper". Through their thoughts author reflects on the role of church in contemporary Poland. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2008. Price: £8.99 | ||
| Huelle, P. | Mercedes-Benz | In the city of Gdansk, our narrator Pawel tells of the driving lessons he took in the early 1990s, shortly after the end of communism. As he struggles with the tiny Fiat's gearbox, Pawel entertains his instructor with stories of his grandparents before the war and of his father in the 1970s. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2005. Price: £8.99 | ||
| Huelle, P. | Who was David Weiser? | Captivating novel by popular contemporary author in which each reader will find questions and answers which tease and haunt the imagination - and evidence of an unusual artistic gift of the author. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 1991. Price: £14.99 | ||
| Kapuscinski, R. | Another Day of Life | In the capital of Angola an apocalyptic atmosphere prevails as the Portuguese residents hurriedly desert the city. Determined to cover events as four hundred years of colonial rule come to an end, Kapuscinski hitched a lift on one of the last Portuguese military aircraft flying to Angola. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2004. Price: £8.99 | ||
| Korczak, J. | King Matt the First | This moving fable follows the adventures of Matt who becomes king when just a child and decides to reform his country according to his own priorities. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2005. Price: £6.99 | ||
| Krajewski, M. | Death in Breslau | First part of an award-winning series of psychological thrillers set in 1930s Wroclaw. Beautiful women, degenerate aristocrats, members of sex sects and a serial killer on the prowl… |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2008. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Lem, S. | Solaris | Science fiction masterpiece by famous Polish writer Stanislaw Lem, a psychological drama set in space which is both, a gripping page-turner and a profound exploration of the potential of the science fiction genre. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2003. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Libera, A. | Madame | Part detective story, part romance, this novel is a story of self-absorbed Polish teenager pursuing intellectual maturity and the woman of his dreams, his French teacher, in Communist-dominated Warsaw. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2004. Price: £8.99 | ||
| Maslowska, D. | Couple of poor, Polish-speaking Romanians | A face-paced road-trip on black ice, laced with dark, ironic humour, this drama illuminates the dangers of being different. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2008. Price: £8.99 | ||
| Maslowska, D. | White and Red | Powerful portrait of love, hopelessness and political burnout in contemporary Eastern European city by one of the most popular new authors. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2005. Price: £9.99 | ||
| Mickiewicz, A. | Treasury of Love Poems | Bilingual edition of poems by Polish national bard and spiritual leader of 19th century. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2004. Price: £9.99 | ||
| Monte, R. | The Dragon of Krakow and other Polish stories | Collection of Polish folk tales. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2008. Price: £4.99 | ||
| Monte, R. | The Mermaid of Warsaw and other tales from Poland | A sparkling collection of the best-known Polish folk tales with original illustrations. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2011. Price: £5.99 | ||
| Mrozek, S. | The elephant | An award-winning collection of hilarious and unnerving short stories, satirizing life in Poland under a totalitarian regime. (Central European Classics collection) |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2010. Price: £9.99 | ||
| Pilch, J. | The mighty angel | Simultaneously tragic and comic, the novel concerns the alcoholic misadventures of a middle-aged man who for eighteen times has woken up in rehab and been released, only to stop off at the liquor store on the way home… |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2010. Price: £10.99 | ||
| Pilch, J. | A thousand peaceful cities | A comic gem the protagonist of which, teenage Jerzyk, becomes involved in a plan of assasination of the head of Polish communist state. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2010. Price: £10.95 | ||
| Sapkowski, A. | Blood of Elves | Geralt, the witcher of Riva - who the reader may already know from the book Last wish - is back - and this time he holds the fate of the whole land in his hands … First volume in the immensely popular 'Witcher' series. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2008. Price: £12.99 | ||
| Sienkiewicz, H. | Charcoal sketches and other tales | A headlong satire on village life in Russian-ruled Polish territory in 19th century, targeting a negligent absentte squirearchy and and administration that uses the Tsarist system to feather its own nest at the people's expense. By a world-renowned author of "Quo Vadis?". |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Price: £9.95 | ||
| Stasiuk, A. | Fado | A literary journey through Eastern Europe bringing together its past and its future. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2009. Price: £10.99 | ||
| Stasiuk, A. | Nine | A young Polish businessman finds himself in financial trouble from which only his former friends, now prominent figures in Warsaw's drug-dealing underground, can help him out… |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2007. Price: £8.99 | ||
| Stasiuk, A. | Tales of Galicia | Collection of prose ballads about a mythical village facing the trauma of 1990s-style economic transformation by one of Poland's leading contemporary writers. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2003. Price: £11.99 | ||
| Szewc, P. | Annihilation | A novel about a day in the life of Polish-Jewish town shortly before WWII and the Holocaust, a town that will soon be annihilated by Nazi atrocities. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Price: £7.99 | ||
| Szymborska, W. | Miracle fair - Selected poems | Poems by Nobel Prize-winning author Wislawa Szymborska with all the major themes: the ironies of love, history lessons unlearned, our parochial human perspective, humanity's place in the cosmos an the illusory character of art. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2002. Price: £11.99 | ||
| Tokarczuk, O. | House of Day, House of Night | Little village, now Polish, German, Czech and Austro-Hungarian in the past, place where borders move and languages come and go, is not as easy place to live in as it appear. When the narrator and her husband settle in the area, she soon discovers that the locals all have their secrets and with the help of Marta, her enigmatic elderly neighbour, she starts to gather their stories… |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2002. Price: £12.00 | ||
| Tulli, M. | Dreams and stones | Telling the story of the growth of a great city, Tulli relates its history by entering the lives of the stones from which the buildings are constructed, as well as the dreams of people and objects interwoven with the city's history. Original title: "Sny I kamienie". |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2004. Price: £12.99 | ||
| Tulli, M. | Moving parts | A feckless, comical narrator struggles against all odds to tell a story for which he is responsible, but which he neither controls nor understands. His characters multiply, repeat, and go astray; his employer is paying no attention, asleep in a drunken stupor. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2005. Price: £12.99 | ||
| Various | Warsaw tales | A collection of contemporary prose and poetry from Poland. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2010. Price: £13.95 | ||
| Wisniewski, J. L. | Loneliness on the net | A more contemporary story would be impossible: the Internet, pagers, airline e-tickets, genome decoding, SMS. And it's also a classic love story. A story of love on the Internet. The biggest bestseller of the decade in Poland that has been translated into many languages and was even made into a feature film. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2007. Price: £14.95 | ||
| Witkowski, M. | Lovetown | A controversial no-holds-barred portrait of the Polish gay community in the Communist era, looking at sexual obsession and homosexuals as both victims and perpetrators of crime. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 2010. Price: £12.99 | ||
| Zeromski, S. | The Faithful River | Complex, dramatic, masterfully told story in which a passionate love affair is played out against a background of wartime privations an the Polish struggle for independence is set against other conflicts of gender, sexuality and class. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English. Published 1999. Price: £13.95 | ||
