Ebook: House of Day, House of Night
Author: Lloyd-Jones Antonia, Tokarczuk Olga
- Tags: Novel--Polish--20th century--English, Manners and customs, Magic realism (Literature), Fiction, Europe Eastern -- Social life and customs -- Fiction, Eastern Europe, Novel -- Polish -- 20th century -- English -- Texts
- Series: Writings from an unbound Europe
- Year: 2003
- Publisher: Northwestern University Press
- City: Eastern Europe;Europe;Eastern;Evanston;Ill
- Language: English
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"Nowa Ruda is a small town in Silesia, an area that has been a part of Poland, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia in the past. When the narrator moves into the area, she discovers everyone--and everything--has its own story. With the help of Marta, her enigmatic neighbor, the narrator accumulates these stories, tracing the history of Nowa Ruda from the founding of the town to the lives of its saints, from the caller who wins the radio quiz every day to the tale of the man who causes international tension when he dies on the border, one leg on the Polish side, the other on the Czech side. Each of the stories represents a brick and they interlock to reveal the immense monument that is the town. What emerges is the message that the history of any place--no matter how humble--is limitless, that by describing or digging at the roots of a life, a house, or a neighborhood, one can see all the connections, not only with one's self and one's dreams but also with all of the universe."--Amazon.com.
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