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Bielawski Maciek (1975- ). Autor Gilroy Scotia Victoria. Tłumaczenie

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Książki Proza

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Literatura polska

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Budownictwo wielorodzinne Relacje międzyludzkie Życie codzienne Polska

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Opowiadania i nowele

Książka w języku angielskim. A postman who develops close friendships with everyone on his postal route, an old man who stops buying the coal he needs to heat his flat so he can afford Christmas presents for his granddaughters, a senile old Holocaust survivor who`s suspicious of almost all her neighbours, two young sisters who are fed up with their baby brother, and an old woman squabbling with her tailor while a suit is being sewn for her to wear at her own funeral – these are just some of the intriguing characters we meet in Doctor Bianco and Other Stories. Written in terse, spare, unaffected prose devoid of sentimentality, the nineteen stories in this collection gradually reveal the portraits of various people inhabiting one particular apartment building in an unspecified town. The gritty, harsh realities faced by Bielawski`s protagonists are at times darkly funny and other times gut-wrenchingly sad.

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On the other hand / Pavel Rankov ; translated by Magdalena Mullek. - London : Terra Librorum, 2022. - 159, [1] strona ; 20 cm.

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Rankov Pavol (1964- ). Autor Mullek Magdalena. Tłumaczenie

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Książki Proza

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Opowiadania i nowele

Książka w języku angielskim. On the Other Hand is a short story collection by the award-winningSlovak author, Pavol Rankov. As the title implies, there is a duality to the stories in this volume – half of them are set in contemporary times and places and cover subjects such as immigration, refugees, drug use, and mental illness. The other half are set in distant lands with palaces and kings, and they read like fairy tales in which people dig to the other side of the Earth, build cities for the virtuous, and live alternate versions of their lives. The common thread in all of them is that Rankov takes a seemingly ordinary situation and pushes it to an extreme, and in doing so, he reveals some truth about human nature.

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The Map / Barbara Sadurska ; translated by Kate Webster. - London : Terra Librorum, 2022. - 198, [1] strona ; 20 cm.

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Sadurska Barbara (1974- ). Autor Webster Kate. Tłumaczenie

Form of Work

Książki Proza

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Literatura polska

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Mapy Pamięć autobiograficzna Samoświadomość Samopoznanie

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Powieść

Książka w języku angielskim. Seven stories connected by a fifteenth-century map of the world. Once upon a time, maps used to exhibit the boundaries of the known world. They soothed our fears, and simultaneously ignited our imagination, uncharted territory beckoning us from afar. Barbara Sadurska`s The Map – belligerent and refreshing in tone, narratively picaresque and nostalgic, structurally non-linear and precisely framed – does not attempt to cover hackneyed ground. It goes much further. In entertaining, it instructs. In instructing, it terrifies. It illuminates the fact that man knows as little about himself as the first cartographers knew about the world. A novel from a puzzle This compendium of texts by Barbara Sadurska, International Short Story Festival laureate, might at first confuse the reader. In “Insomnia”, the book`s opening story, the sentences are cut short, the plot seems to be all over the place, and the reader is left with an unsolved mystery. And yet, intrigued and enchanted by the language, they wade further into the story in order to discover the missing pieces of the puzzle. The Map is hard to read as just a collection of short stories – or even as a novel; it is instead a `deconstructed novel`, the pieces of which do not seem to form a consistent plot, much like our own stories for which we never received a manual.

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Poliglotka (Nowolipki 21)

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