“ Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance. ” ― Roy T. Bennett
In the late 1980s a group of young men in their early thirties leave Warsaw for a few days in the mountains, partly out of boredom, partly for an adventure. Their plans go wrong when they get lost, argue, and finally, accidentally, kill a border guard. Fl
Seemingly a set of prose ballads about the southeastern tip of Poland, Tales of Galicia brilliantly blurs the line between the short-story genre and the novel, while giving a vivid, poetic portrait of an imaginary village that was once part of a vibrant c
Pawel, a young businessman in debt to loan sharks, wakes up one April morning in a sea of debris, broken glass, ripped upholstery, and clothes spilling out of the wardrobe. He turns to two friends for help: Bolek, a former coal miner, now a drug dealer wh
Najnowsza książka Andrzeja Stasiuka to niezwykły zapis podróży na Wschód – podróży we wspomnienia do obrazów z dzieciństwa spędzanego u dziadków na Podlasiu i podróży tam, skąd wyszły oddziały Czyngis-chana, tam, gdzie historia jest jak
Powieść.Bohaterowie starzeją się, ale nie poddają. W ucieczce i w pościgu przemierzają kraje, przemycają ludzi, ratują swoje porwane przez wcielonego diabła kobiety i mówią, bez końca opowiadają straszne, smutne i śmieszne historie. Czy im
At several points in the haunting Dukla, Andrzej Stasiuk claims that what he is trying to do is “write a book about light.” The result is a beautiful, lyrical series of evocations of a very specific locale at different times of the year, in different
Andrzej Stasiuk is a restless and indefatigable traveler. His journeys take him from his native Poland to Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Albania, Moldova, and Ukraine. By car, train, bus, ferry. To small towns and villages with unfamiliar-sounding
In this delightful collection of essays—by turns wry and reflective, wistful and witty—contemporary Polish writer Andrzej Stasiuk turns his attention to the villages and small towns of Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Albania, and of course his native Pola
