The ancient Greeks used the term catharsis for the cleansing of both the body by medicine and the soul by art. In this inspiring book, internationally renowned cardiologist Andrzej Szczeklik draws deeply on our humanistic heritage to describe the artistry and the mystery of being a doctor. Moving between examples ancient and contemporary, ...
A portrait of human devastation in the wake of the Bosnian Wars, "Like Eating a Stone" is a collection of heartbreaking stories as told by the survivors searching for family members and their remains. Illustrations throughout.
The poets in this anthology - Jacek Dehnel, Agnieszka Kuciak, Anna Piwkowska, Tomasz Rozyski, Dariusz Suska and Maciej Wozniak - belong to a generation whose work stands in stark contrast to the highly individualist writing unleashed by the removal of censorship after the fall of communism, writing with an aesthetic of stylistic brutality ...
From the synagogues of nineteenth-century Vienna to Britain and the war years, the story of the Horowitz family reads like an epic novel. A wonderfully intimate family portrait, it follows the lives of four generations of Polish Jews who lived through - and mostly survived - the turbulent twentieth century. Full of tales of bravery as well as the ...
Nowa Ruda is a small town in Silesia, an area that has been a part of Poland, Germany and the former Czechoslovakia in the past. When the narrator of this novel moves into the area, she discovers everyone - and everything - has its own story.
In the Polish 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 struggled with the tiny Fiat's gearbox, causing chaos while stalled at a crossroads, Pawel entertained his instructor - the lovely Miss Ciwle - with stories of his grandparents and parents lives. ...
Seven stories are collected in this volume, all are set in postwar communist Poland. The characters cannot escape the ghosts of the past, the Germans who used to live in Gdansk when it was Danzig, the Germans who came as invaders and destroyers, the Jews, the Russians, the Ukrainians, and all the peoples who lived in the area, passed through it, ...
Iwaszkiewicz's work is familiar to every Polish reader, yet remains unknown to the outside world. These stories were all written in the 1930s, and provide an extraordinary evocation of Poland's first brief era of independence between the wars. They are also timeless sonatas of love and loss.
Set in Gdansk, the story centres on a single day in the near future, when twelve men have been invited by their mutual friend, an artist, to model at a photographic session for a modern version of The Last Supper. The histories of the twelve men are revealed through their thoughts on the day: their wayward behaviour is a reflection of the role of ...
This book is shortlisted for the Independent foreign fiction prize 2008. Picking up on a throwaway line in "The Magic Mountain", Castorp tells the story of Hans Castorp's student years in Gdansk, long before the adventures in Davos described in Thomas Mann's novel. Pawel Huelle skilfully creates a credible scenario for this influential period in ...
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