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Struck / Susanna Bissoli ; translated from the Italian by Georgia Wall. - London : Linden Editions, 2025. - 237 stron ; 20 cm.

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Bissoli Susanna. Autor Wall Georgia. Tłumaczenie

Form of Work

Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura włoska

Subject

Kobieta Pisarze Rak piersi Pamięć autobiograficzna Rodzina Ojcowie i córki Werona (Włochy ; okolice)

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Książka w języku angielskim. When Vera is diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time, she moves back in with her cantankerous and entrepreneurial father, Zeno. It is the first time she has slept in the family home since her mother died, of the same cancer, almost a decade earlier. Wandering through this house which vibrates with solitude, Vera stumbles upon Zeno's most surprising secret: a novel. Vera herself is a writer, but she hasn't published work for years. Confined now to Quaderni, a village in the province of Verona, and haunted by signs of mortality, the discovery of her father's private fantasy world presents an unexpected opportunity. Constructed between family visits, hospital appointments, and through fragments of memories, conversations, and the kernels of stories yet to be written, Struck is at once a delicate portrait of a family navigating life's catastrophes and a gently defiant celebration of the act of writing.

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Voracious / Małgorzata Lebda ; translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. - London : Linden Editions, 2025. - 234, [6] stron ; 20 cm.

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Lebda Małgorzata (1985- ). Autor

Form of Work

Książki Proza

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Literatura polska

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Choroby ludzi Kobieta Trudne sytuacje życiowe Wsie

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Książka w języku angielskim. Voracious follows a year in the life of a young woman caringfor her dying grandmother in the companyof her grandfather, her friend, and animals. The novel is set in a smallvillage which echoes with noises fromthe nearby abattoir and which is threatened by a landslide. The grandfather is renovating a room for hiswife while the women care for one another, for the plants, and for the animals. Malgorzata Lebda guides us through the countryside, the changing seasons, wildlife, illness, death, andlove. Everything is at once fragile and full of life, animate and inanimate. Full of profound emotionaltruths, this book signals the arrival of a newinternational talent.

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Not there / Mariusz Szczygieł ; translated from the Polish with an afterword by Antonina Lloyd-Jones. - London : Linden Editions, 2025. - 238 stron ; 20 cm.

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Szczygieł Mariusz (1966- ). Autor Lloyd-Jones Antonia (1962- ). Posłowie

Form of Work

Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Literatura polska

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Pamięć Poczucie straty Polska

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Esej Reportaż

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Socjologia i społeczeństwo

Bibliografia i netografia na stronach 233-234.

Książka w języku angielskim. A collection of essays about loss, grief, and absence, "Not there" tells stories of ordinary people and the things that have happened to them. Emotions underlying these stories prompt the reader to think of their losses, and their compensations. It's also about how we remember things - unreliably on the whole - and how our idea of the truth may be a very personal one. Szczygiel's wide and international range of interlocutors includes: a Czech poet, a Ukrainian soldier, a Polish accountant, an Albanian painter, an Israeli writer, and the father of a reporter with whom the author travels to Prague for the last time. Written in a beautiful, associative style reminiscent of W. G. Sebald, Szczygiel lets his interlocutors and memories drive the story in unusual directions. With a perfect eye and a voice infused with empathy and wit, Szczygiel explores the human condition with its unavoidable absences. The advice that famous Polish writer, Hanna Krall, gave the author hovers over the book: "Everything must have its form, its rhythm, Mr Mariusz. Especially absence".

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