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Young Edek lives with his elderly father who tries to keep his son by his side. The boy's longing for freedom and a girl clashes with his father's possessiveness. The pigeons symbolize unattainable freedom. The conflict leads to a tragic ending.
The anthology, edited and translated by Zdravko Malić, a leading Croatian Polish scholar and founder of the Polish Language Department at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Zagreb, represents a key selection of Polish short fiction from the 20th century.
By Fire and Sword (1884) is an epic historical novel about the Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648–1651). It follows the adventures of the knight Jan Skrzetuski, his love for Helena, and the bloody conflicts between Poles, Cossacks, and Tatars on the Ukrainian ste
The novel The Promised Land, published in 1899, is one of the most significant works by Polish Nobel Prize winner Władysław Reymont. Set in the industrial city of Łódź at the end of the 19th century, the novel depicts rapid industrialization and its conse
The third part of the epic tetralogy The Peasants. Spring brings the awakening of nature, but also new conflicts in the village of Lipce: the culmination of a love triangle, family drama and social tensions. The continuation of Nobel's epic of Polish peas
“Nine” (1999) by Andrzej Stasiuk, one of the most important contemporary Polish writers, is an unusual thriller that follows a small shopkeeper, Paweł, a modern-day Ulysses, whose life changes abruptly when debt collectors rob him and destroy his apartmen