The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories

The stories include ''Miss Winczewska'', by the classic twentieth-century writer Maria Dabrowska (1889--1965), based on her experience of returning from the provinces to the destroyed capital when the war ended in 1945; and ''In the Shadow of Brooklyn'' by Stanislaw Dygat (1914--1978), the comical tale of a young man''s envy of what he imagines to be his father''s success with women. At the contemporary end, it includes a story by Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk (1962), ''The Green Children'', a historical story set in 1656, narrated by a Scottish doctor who, as the Polish king''s physician, travels about the wilds of Poland and encounters two feral children. Curated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, this anthology is a refreshing and glorious new collection of the best in Polish literature.<>

Product details

• Authors: Antonia Lloyd-Jones
• Assisted by: Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Editor), Lloyd-Jones Antonia (Editor), Lloyd-Jones Antonia (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 02.01.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9780241563397
• ISBN: 978-0-241-56339-7
• No. of pages: 592
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 240 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, Poland, Fiction in translation, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), FICTION / World Literature / Poland, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / Eastern, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary