Wioletta Greg : Guguły (Swallowing Mercury)
The latest addition to my website is Wioletta Greg's Guguły (Swallowing Mercury). This is a delightful and poetical tale of a girl growing up in rural Poland, a village called…
Siegfried Lenz: Der Überläufer (The Turncoat)
The latest addition to my website is Siegfried Lenz's Der Überläufer (The Turncoat). This novel was originally written in 1951, Lenz's second novel. However, it was not published then, partially…
Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz : Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy (The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma)
The latest addition to my website is Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz's Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy (The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma). While very well-known in Poland, if this book is known in the English-speaking…
Rafał Wojasiński: Olanda (Olanda)
The latest addition to my website is Rafał Wojasiński's Olanda (Olanda). We follow the stories of a group of mainly elderly people in a fairly remote Polish village. Most of…
Olga Tokarczuk: Czysty kraj [Pure Country]
The latest addition to my website is Olga Tokarczuk's Czysty kraj [Pure Country]. This is the first and longest story in a collection called Ostatnie historie [Recent Stories]. It tells…
Stefan Chwin: Hanemann (Death in Danzig)
The latest addition to my website is Stefan Chwin's Hanemann (Death in Danzig). Hanemann whose name is the title in most languages, including the Polish original, is a professor of…
Olga Tokarczuk: Księgi Jakubowe (Books of Jacob)
The latest addition to my website is Olga Tokarczuk's Księgi Jakubowe (Books of Jacob). When you are self-isolating from a virus, a nearly one thousand page long novel by a…
Olga Tokarczuk: Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych (Drive Your Plough over the Bones of the Dead)
The latest addition to my website is Olga Tokarczuk's Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych (Drive Your Plough over the Bones of the Dead). This is a superb novel from…
Olga Tokarczuk: Bieguni (Flights)
The latest addition to my website is Olga Tokarczuk's Bieguni (Flights). The Polish title refers to a sect of Old Believers who believed that they should run away from anti-Christian…
Olga Tokarczuk: Dom dzienny, dom nocny (House of Day, House of Night)
The latest addition to my website is Olga Tokarczuk's Dom dzienny, dom nocny (House of Day, House of Night). The novel is set in the Polish town of Nowa Ruda,…