| Ashes and Diamonds Translated Edition Contributor(s): Andrzejewski, Jerzy (Author), Welsh, D. J. (Translator), Boll, Heinrich (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0810115190 ISBN-13: 9780810115194 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1997 Annotation: Ashes and Diamonds takes us to a provincial town in the spring of 1945. The nation is in the throes of transformation to People's Poland. Communists, socialists, and nationalists; thieves and black marketeers; servants and fading aristocrats; veteran terrorists and bands of murderous children bewitched by the lure of crime and adventure--all these converge on the town's chief hotel, a microcosm of an uprooted world. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96038228 |
| Series: European Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.18" W x 7.75" (0.60 lbs) 239 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Originally published in Poland in 1948, and acclaimed as one of the finest postwar Polish novels, Ashes and Diamonds takes place in the spring of 1945, as the nation is in the throes of its transformation to People' Poland. Communists, socialists, and nationalists; thieves and black marketeers; servants and fading aristocrats; veteran terrorists and bands of murderous children bewitched by the lure of crime and adventure--all of these converge on a provincial town's chief hotel, a microcosm of an uprooted world. |