 | | © by Jerzy Pilch
c/o Puls Publications Ltd
BCM box 697, London WC1N 3XX, GB
tel: (+ 44 171) 373 50 10
1st edition 1997
book size: 12.5 x 19.5 cm
length: 182 pages
paperback
ISBN: 1-8597-072-2
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Jerzy PilchThousand Paceful Cities
About the author
In his latest work, Pilch "goes home" to his father, his childhood, and the youth he spent in the Cieszyn region, which remains an island of protestantism in Catholic Poland. This is a story about the agonies of adolescence and the loss of a father. This is a novel about drinking and the sense of life in a world that is alien: to be a protestant in Poland means being different, to be a child means seeing the world differently. "When Father and Mr. Traba decided to kill First Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka, there was an unbroken heatwave and the world was trembling at its seams. That is when the torture of my youth began." This is how A Thousand Peaceful Cities begins, a book in which the murder of Gomulka is described in all its details...
"In the encounter with Pilch's text, the unprepared reader is threatened with overreading, or a temporary loss of control over his or her surroundings." (Anna Nasilowska, Tygodnik Powszechny)
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