Parametre
- 376 stránok
- 14 hodin čítania
Viac o knihe
Our hero and narrator is the aging caretaker of cottages at a summer resort. A mysterious visitor inspires him to share the story of his long life: we witness a happy childhood cut short by the war, his hiding from the Nazis buried in a heap of potatoes, his plodding attempts to play the saxophone, the brutal murder of his family, loves lost but remembered, and footloose travels abroad. Told in the manner of friends and neighbors swapping stories over the mundane task of shelling beans—in the grand oral tradition of Myśliwski’s celebrated Stone Upon Stone—each anecdote, lived experience, and memory accrues cross-stitched layers of meaning. By turns hilarious and poignant, A Treatise on Shelling Beans is an epic recounting of a life that, while universal, is anything but ordinary.
Nákup knihy
A Treatise on Shelling Beans, Wiesław Myśliwski
- Jazyk
- Rok vydania
- 2013
- Väzba
- (mäkká)
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- Titul
- A Treatise on Shelling Beans
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Wiesław Myśliwski
- Vydavateľ
- Archipelago Books
- Rok vydania
- 2013
- Väzba
- mäkká
- Počet strán
- 376
- ISBN10
- 1935744909
- ISBN13
- 9781935744900
- Série
- Kategórie
- Štítky
- Svetová literatúra, Láska, Rodina, Súčasná literatúra, Priateľstvo, USA, Vzťahy, Vojny, Druhá svetová vojna, Americká literatúra, Príbehy, Škola, Úmrtia, Filmová tematika, Sprievodca, Príbehy zo života, Lingvistika, Dospievanie, Dejiny Európy, Manželstvo, Písanie, Pomsta, Poľská literatúra, Prežitie, Vtipy & Anekdoty, Noir, Poľsko, Sestry, Otec, Trauma, Rozvod, Občianska vojna, Fašizmus, Východná Európa, Smútok, Smutné, Kamikaze
- Anotácia
- Our hero and narrator is the aging caretaker of cottages at a summer resort. A mysterious visitor inspires him to share the story of his long life: we witness a happy childhood cut short by the war, his hiding from the Nazis buried in a heap of potatoes, his plodding attempts to play the saxophone, the brutal murder of his family, loves lost but remembered, and footloose travels abroad. Told in the manner of friends and neighbors swapping stories over the mundane task of shelling beans—in the grand oral tradition of Myśliwski’s celebrated Stone Upon Stone—each anecdote, lived experience, and memory accrues cross-stitched layers of meaning. By turns hilarious and poignant, A Treatise on Shelling Beans is an epic recounting of a life that, while universal, is anything but ordinary.