Opis: A Thousand Peaceful Cites - Jerzy Pilch

If laughter actually is the best medicine, fortunate readers of this wonderful novel will surely enjoy perfect health for the rest of their days.
Kirkus Reviews

A comic gem, Jerzy Pilchs A Thousand Peaceful Citiestakes place in 1963, in the latter days of the Polish post-Stalinist thaw. The narrator, Jerzyk (little Jerzy), is a teenager who is keenly interested in his father, a retired postal administrator, and his fathers closest friend, Mr. Traba, a failed Lutheran clergyman, alcoholic, and would-be Polish insurrectionist. One drunken afternoon, Mr. Traba and the narrators father decide to take charge of their lives and do one final good turn for humanity: travel to distant Warsaw and assassinate the de facto Polish head of state, First Secretary of the Polish United Workers Party, Wladyslaw Gomulkaassassinating Mao Tse-tung, after all, would be impractical. And they decide to involve Jerzyk in their scheme...

Translated from the Polish by David Frick

Szczegóły: A Thousand Peaceful Cites - Jerzy Pilch

Tytuł: A Thousand Peaceful Cites
Autor: Jerzy Pilch
Wydawnictwo: Open Letter
ISBN: 9781934824276
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2010
Ilość stron: 148
Format: 14.0x21.0cm
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.21 kg

Recenzje: A Thousand Peaceful Cites - Jerzy Pilch