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Warsaw Tales - Paperback

by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
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Availability:In StockContributor:Helen Constantine (Editor), Antonia Lloyd-JonesSeries:City TalesPublish date:2024-12-12Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780192855565ISBN-10:192855565UPC:9780192855565Book Category:Literary Criticism, Literary CollectionsSize:7.64 x 5.34 x 0.57 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SCJQ3RF5DC
Warsaw Tales is an anthology of short stories and non-fiction set in the Polish capital. Beginning in 1911 with Boleslaw Prus' Apparitions, the collected stories provide a chronological account of the city's tumultuous and dramatic history. Each story captures a phase of Warsaw's past, through the interwar period as a Polish republic, the Second World War and the city's Nazi occupation, the post-war city in ruins and its rebuilding under the communist regime, and its new status as the capital of an independent Poland in 1989. With each story set in a specific part of the city, the collection becomes a guidebook to Warsaw's temporal, spatial, and psychological geography.

This collection features a wide variety of authors including Boleslaw Prus, Maria Kuncewiczowa, Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, Ludwik Hering, Zofia Petersowa, Marek Hlasko, Kazimierz Orlos, Hanna Krall, Antoni Libera, Zbigniew Mentzel, Olga Tokarczuk, and Krzysztof Varga.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780192855565ISBN-10:192855565UPC:9780192855565Book Category:Literary Criticism, Literary CollectionsSize:7.64 x 5.34 x 0.57 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SCJQ3RF5DC
Helen Constantine

Antonia Lloyd-Jones graduated from Oxford University in 1983 with a degree in Russian and Ancient Greek, and has been teaching herself Polish ever since. She has translated works by many of Poland's leading contemporary novelists and reportage authors, as well as crime fiction, poetry and children's books. Her translation of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by 2018 Nobel Prize laureate Olga Tokarczuk was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. She is a mentor for the Emerging Translators' Mentorship Programme, and former co-chair of the UK Translators Association.
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Helen Constantine (Editor), Antonia Lloyd-Jones

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Antonia Lloyd-Jones

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