A Long, Long Time Ago & Essentially True (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
PEN/Hemingway Award Winner: A "gorgeous" novel weaving together stories of Poland past and present in one whimsically romantic epic (Chicago Tribune).
On the eve of World War II, in a small Polish village, a young man nicknamed the Pigeon falls in love...
On the eve of World War II, in a small Polish village, a young man nicknamed the Pigeon falls in love...
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PEN/Hemingway Award Winner: A "gorgeous" novel weaving together stories of Poland past and present in one whimsically romantic epic (Chicago Tribune).
On the eve of World War II, in a small Polish village, a young man nicknamed the Pigeon falls in love with a girl fabled for her angelic looks. To build a place in Anielica's heart, he transforms her family's modest hut into a beautiful home. But war arrives, cutting short their courtship and sending the young lovers off to the promise of a fresh start in Krakow.
Nearly fifty years later, the couple's granddaughter, Beata, repeats this journey, seeking a new life in the fairy-tale city of her grandmother's stories. But instead of the rumored prosperity of the New Poland, she discovers a city full of frustrated youths, caught between its future and its past. Taken in by her tough-talking cousin, Irena, and her glamorous daughter, Magda, Beata struggles to find her own place in the world. But unexpected events-tragedies and miracles both-change lives and open eyes.
"A whimsical debut," (New York Times Book Review) A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True weaves together two remarkable stories, reimagining half a century of Polish history through the legacy of one unforgettable love affair. This magical, heartbreaking novel "rings hauntingly, enchantingly, real" (National Geographic Traveler).
"With a touch of Marina Lewycka and a dash of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, this is storytelling that gets under your skin and forces you to press copies into your best friends' hands." -Elle (UK)
"Funny and romantic like all the best true stories." -Charlotte Mendelson, author of When We Were Bad
On the eve of World War II, in a small Polish village, a young man nicknamed the Pigeon falls in love with a girl fabled for her angelic looks. To build a place in Anielica's heart, he transforms her family's modest hut into a beautiful home. But war arrives, cutting short their courtship and sending the young lovers off to the promise of a fresh start in Krakow.
Nearly fifty years later, the couple's granddaughter, Beata, repeats this journey, seeking a new life in the fairy-tale city of her grandmother's stories. But instead of the rumored prosperity of the New Poland, she discovers a city full of frustrated youths, caught between its future and its past. Taken in by her tough-talking cousin, Irena, and her glamorous daughter, Magda, Beata struggles to find her own place in the world. But unexpected events-tragedies and miracles both-change lives and open eyes.
"A whimsical debut," (New York Times Book Review) A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True weaves together two remarkable stories, reimagining half a century of Polish history through the legacy of one unforgettable love affair. This magical, heartbreaking novel "rings hauntingly, enchantingly, real" (National Geographic Traveler).
"With a touch of Marina Lewycka and a dash of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, this is storytelling that gets under your skin and forces you to press copies into your best friends' hands." -Elle (UK)
"Funny and romantic like all the best true stories." -Charlotte Mendelson, author of When We Were Bad
Autoren-Porträt von Brigid Pasulka
BRIGID PASULKA, the descendant of Polish immigrants, first arrived in Kraków in the early nineties, with no contacts, no knowledge of the language, and only a vague idea of Polish culture. She quickly fell in love with the place, learned Polish, and decided to live there for one year. She now teaches English at a Chicago high school.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Brigid Pasulka
- 2017, 368 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Mariner Books
- ISBN-10: 0547428472
- ISBN-13: 9780547428475
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2017
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Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Prize for Debut Fiction“In this life-affirming novel of past and present, Brigid Pasulka twines the bright colors of fable with the subtler tones of disillusionment, survival, and rebirth—incarnating not only her characters and their lives, but Poland itself. Rarely does a novel succeed so well in evoking place and history, especially with a story as winning as this one. A marvelous debut.” —Nicole Mones, author of The Last Chinese Chef and Lost in Translation
“Two lives, a grandmother’s and her granddaughter’s, are knit together in a finely wrought tapestry that illuminates an inheritance of a less familiar kind. At once haunting and exquisitely vibrant, Pasulka’s original tale is a treasure, transcending history, time, and place.” —Martha McPhee, author of Gorgeous Lies
“Pasulka’s delightful debut braids together two tales of old and new Poland. . . . Pasulka creates a world that’s magical despite the absence of magical happenings, and where Poland’s history is bound up in one family’s story.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Grand in scope, yet meticulous in detail, Brigid Pasulka’s generous and affectionate novel finds universal truths in both its most-dramatic moments and its most-intimate observations. A compassionate, elegant, and moving debut.” —Adam Langer, author of Crossing California
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