Více o knize
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 vydání
- 2013
- Vazba
- (měkká)
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- Titul
- A Treatise on Shelling Beans
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- Wiesław Myśliwski
- Vydavatel
- Archipelago Books
- Rok vydání
- 2013
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 376
- ISBN10
- 1935744909
- ISBN13
- 9781935744900
- Série
- Kategorie
- Štítky
- Světová literatura, Láska, Rodina, Současná literatura, Přátelství, USA, Vztahy, Války, Druhá světová válka, Americká literatura, Příběhy, Škola, Úmrtí, Filmová tématika, Průvodce, Příběhy ze života, Lingvistika, Dospívání, Historie Evropy, Manželství, Psaní, Pomsta, Polská literatura, Přežití, Vtipy & Anekdoty, Noir, Polsko, Sestry, Otec, Trauma, Rozvod, Občanská válka, Fašismus, Východní Evropa, Smutek, Smutné, Kamikaze
- Anotace
- 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.