| Zal Contributor(s): Ericson, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 1456558870 ISBN-13: 9781456558871 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $14.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Political |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.51" W x 8.5" (0.78 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When asked if the camera can lie, the photographer Walker Evans replied: "Always." For the narrator of Zal (pronounced "zhahl"), the greater problem was self-deception. The story unfolds in the forty-eight hours preceding the 1981 crackdown by the Communist regime in Poland, as the narrator - a free-lance photojournalist documenting the era of Solidarnosc - searches for Marta, the enigmatic student he'd met months earlier in Krakow. Interwoven are other recollections - reaching back to his youth and forward to 1991, a decade after martial law in Poland abruptly altered the course of history. By turns haunting and hopeful, gritty and comic, Zal is a novel of words and images, memory and regret. |