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- Location(s): Warsaw
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s/1940s
‘You do not leave a sick child alone to face the dark and you do not leave a child at a time like this.’ Deeply in love and about to marry, students Misha and Sophia flee a Warsaw under...
- Location(s): Warsaw
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940
Like any girl who is loved by her family, Abigail Nussbaum loves to chase butterflies, enjoys lying on her back looking for shapes in the clouds, and happily teaches young children to make daisy chains. In the eyes of...
- Location(s): Warsaw
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1937
Warsaw in the late 1930s,the looming menace of Hitler’s Germany on one side and Stalin’s Russia on the other. Colonel Mercier is a French military attache based in Warsaw, and is given the task to discover how, if war...
- 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...
Ghetto Fights, The : Warsaw 1943-45
- 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...
I Saw A Beautiful Woodpecker: The Diary of a Young Boy at the Outbreak World War II
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Location(s): Derby, Krakow, Warsaw
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s, 1970s
Three generations of a Polish immigrant family are living in Derby in 1964 when the grandmother decides she wants to return to her homeland to make peace with her relatives and await death. Her war-traumatised daughter remains in Derby...
- 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...
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