Jennifer (Translator) Croft
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas--and a new unrest--begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires with throngs of...
2) Flights
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed writer in his forties, embarks on a day trip from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to pick up fifteen thousand dollars in cash. An advance due to him on his upcoming novel, the small fortune might mean the solution to his problems, most importantly the tension he has with his wife. While she spends her days at work and her nights out on the town-with a lover, perhaps, he doesn't know for sure-Lucas is stuck at home all day...
Author
Publisher
Charco Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the middle of a blizzard a widow watches the ruin of her late husband's garden, until suddenly she sees a woman running naked in the falling snow. After telling her parents she is abandoning her Christian faith, a girl becomes infatuated with a Mormon missionary who reminds her of a boy killed in her village years before. When his family home is lost, a father desperately offers his daughter's hand in marriage to anyone who will take them in....
6) Dislocations
Author
Publisher
Charco Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Dislocations records the gradual loss of a beloved friend, M.L., a disappearance in ways expected (forgotten names, forgotten moments) and painfully surprising (the reversion of formal, 'proper' Spanish from their previous shared vernacular)."--
Author
Publisher
Wydawnictwo Literackie
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Polish
Description
"Siostry Amy i Zoe dorastają w szczęśliwej rodzinie w Oklahomie. Są zdolne, inteligentne, otwarte na nowe wyzwania i... nierozłączne. Kiedy młodsza, Zoe, zaczyna chorować, uczą się i bawią w domu, dużo czytają i poznają nowe języki - Amy rosyjski, Zoe ukraiński. Amy fotografuje. Dziecięcy świat zderza się z dramatyczną diagnozą nowotworową Zoe. I wtedy siostry oddalają się od siebie. Amy dorasta zbyt szybko. Przeżywa tragedię...
8) Two Sherpas
Author
Publisher
Charco Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An Englishman has fallen from a ridge in Nepal. His guides kneel at the edge, exchanging the odd word, waiting for him to move. They must make a decision to descend. In those minutes, Two Sherpas expands dizzyingly to encompass Mount Everest's place in the imagination of imperialists, Nazis and others; ambition, exploration and exploitation; a mysterious encounter in a beach resort in a distant land; a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar,...
Author
Publisher
Transit Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Accommodations follows Wiola after she leaves her childhood village, a close-knit agricultural community in Poland where the Catholic calendar and local gossip punctuate daily life. Her new independence in the nearby city of Czestochowa is far from a fresh start, as she moves between a hostel and a nuns' convent brimming with secrets, taking in the stories of those around her. In the same striking prose that drew readers to her critically acclaimed...