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Availability:In StockContributor:Czeslaw MiloszPublish date:2000-05-22Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plISBN-13:9780374516956ISBN-10:374516952UPC:9780374516956Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:PolandSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SC4D6CP6HG

The Issa Valley

Thomas, the child-protagonist of The Issa Valley, is subject to both the contradictions of nature in this severe northern setting and sometimes enchanting, sometimes brutal timbre of village life. There are the deep pine and spruce forests, the grouse and the deer, and the hunter's gun. There is Magdalena, the beautiful mistress of the village priest, whose suicide unleashes her ghost to haunt...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plISBN-13:9780374516956ISBN-10:374516952UPC:9780374516956Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:PolandSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SC4D6CP6HG

Czeslaw Milosz is the winner of the 1978 Neustadt International Prize in Literature and the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. Since 1962 he has been a professor, now emeritus, of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent publications are Facing the River, Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz, and Road-side Dog. He...

Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl

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