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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 Price: £10.95 | ||
| 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 Price: £7.99 | ||
| Ficowski, J. | Waiting for the dog to sleep | Collection of mysterious and dreamlike tales about post-war Poland. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English Price: £9.00 | ||
| 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 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 Price: £8.95 | ||
| Grabinski, S. | The Dark Domain | Collection of short stories with fantastic, bizarre, decadent and grotesque themes and a bit of East European melancholy. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English Price: £6.99 | ||
| 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 Price: £6.00 | ||
| 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 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 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 Price: £14.99 | ||
| Iwaszkiewicz, J. | The Brich grove and other stories | Selection of short stories that evoke Poland's first brief era of independence between the wars and are also timeless sonatas of love and loss. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English Price: £9.99 | ||
| 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 Price: £8.99 | ||
| Kasprzycka, M. | Polish cooking - traditional | Contains over 1000 original recipes with easy-to-follow instructions and illustrations. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English Price: £16.95 | ||
| 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 Price: £6.99 | ||
| 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 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 Price: £7.99 | ||
| 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 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 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 Price: £7.99 | ||
| Pilch, J. | His current woman | Pawel Kohoutek, veterinarian and womanizer, looks out the window one morning to see his mistress approaching his house. That's bad. She is hauling her suitcase and backpack. That's worse. So Kohoutek does the only thing he can: He hides his current woman in the attic of the family slaughterhouse… |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English Price: £11.50 | ||
| Prus, B. | The Sins of Childhood & Other Stories | Collection of stories by the 19th century writer Boleslaw Prus, who has been called the greatest Polish novelist of all time. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English Price: £12.50 | ||
| Sapkowski, A. | The Last wish | In his role as guardian of the innocent, Geralt, the witcher from Rivia, meets incestuous kings with undead daughters, vengeful djinns, rancorous maidens, shrieking harpies and more… Extremely popular fantasy by a famous author in English for the first time! |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English Price: £9.99 | ||
| 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. | 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 Price: £9.00 | ||
| Stasiuk, A. | White Raven | A group of friends, young men in their early thirties, take up the challenge of roughing it in the mountains of Poland. Up against nature, they hope to break the monotony of their everyday lives. But a gratuitous act of murder committed by one of them forces them to go on the run… |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English Price: £12.00 | ||
| 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 Price: £12.95 | ||
| Szymborska, W. | Poems New and Collected 1957-1997 | Definitive collection of poetry by a winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Literature. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English Price: £14.99 | ||
| Szymborska, W. | View with a Grain of Sand | Selection of poems. |
| Polish: Literature: Translations into English Price: £12.99 | ||
| 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 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 Price: £15.95 | ||
| 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 Price: £16.95 | ||
| 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 Price: £13.95 | ||
| 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 Price: £13.95 | ||
