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The King of Warsaw

The King of Warsaw
  • Author(s): Szczepan Twardoch
  • Location(s): Poland, Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Leading up to WW2

A city ignited by hate. A man in thrall to power. The ferociously original award-winning bestseller by Poland’s literary phenomenon—his first to be translated into English. It’s 1937. Poland is about to catch fire. In the boxing ring, Jakub...

The Warsaw Orphan

The Warsaw Orphan
  • Author(s): Kelly Rimmer
  • Location(s): Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

In the spring of 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek is aware of the swiftly growing discord just beyond the courtyard of her comfortable Warsaw home. She has no fondness for the Germans who patrol her streets and impose their curfews,...

The Seamstress Of Warsaw

The Seamstress Of Warsaw
  • Author(s): Rebecca Mascull
  • Location(s): Poland, London, Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Daring, tragic, haunting, and unforgettable – Mascull is a superb writer. – Louisa Treger , author of The Dragon Lady 1940 London A man learns a shocking truth about his past. Warsaw A mother writes a diary as the...

Entanglement

Entanglement
  • Author(s): Zygmunt Miłoszewski
  • Location(s): Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

The morning oafter a gruelling group therapy session, Henry Talek is found dead, a roasting spit stuck in his eye. The case lands on the desk of Warsaw prosecutor Teodor Szacki. World-weary and suffering from bureaucratic exhaustion and marital...

Nine

Nine
  • Author(s): Andrzej Stasiuk, Bill Johnston (translator)
  • Location(s): Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Pawel, a young Polish businessman, is in trouble; in debt to loan sharks his only hope lies with former friends, many of whom are now prominent in Warsaw’s drug-dealing underground. Embarking on a desperate fool’s-gold chase through the city’s...

Shosha

Shosha
  • Author(s): Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Location(s): Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

It is Warsaw in the 1930s. Aaron Greidinger is an aspiring young writer and the son of a rabbi, who struggles to be true to his art when he is faced with the chance of riches and a passport...

I Saw A Beautiful Woodpecker: The Diary of a Young Boy at the Outbreak World War II

I Saw A Beautiful Woodpecker: The Diary of a Young Boy at the Outbreak World War II
  • Author(s): Michał Skibiński, Ala Bankroft (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1939

It is the summer of 1939 in Warsaw, Poland and Michal is an eight-year-old boy just finishing his school year. In order to improve his handwriting, Michal’s teacher gives him a simple assignment: keep a journal, writing one sentence...

Zaremba, or Love and the Rule of Law

Zaremba, or Love and the Rule of Law
  • Author(s): Michelle Granas
  • Location(s): Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Cordelia is a shy and high-minded polio victim who lives a life of seclusion caring for her odd family in Warsaw. Her father is an academic with no life skills, her brother never leaves the villa, and her mother...

The Doll

The Doll
  • Author(s): Boleslaw Prus
  • Location(s): Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1870s

The Doll is a classic of Polish literature, a novel that takes in the whole nineteenth century and looks ahead to modern questions of empire, revolution, anti-Semitism, and socialism. Yet it is less a novel of ideas than a...

Ghetto Fights, The : Warsaw 1943-45

Ghetto Fights, The : Warsaw 1943-45
  • Author(s): Marek Edelman
  • Location(s): Warsaw
  • Era(s): 1943-45

This remarkable memoir by Marek Edelman, member of the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance five-person command team, tells first-hand of the struggle of Warsaw’s Jews against the Nazis in the spring of 1943. Features a new introduction by John Rose, author...

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