The Boarding House (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781628972726)

Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. In this debut novel by the Polish writer Piotr P痙inski, a young man takes a train to a small town outside of Warsaw to visit a boarding house populated by the last generation of Polish Holocaust survivors. When his grandmother was alive, he had spent a great deal of time at this boarding house, and now he returns, as if to get one last glimpse of the past--to look at old faces and think old thoughts. P痙inski's narrative is at once dreamlike and hard-nosed, and it is structured with the haunting simplicity of a fairy tale. The Boarding House is a meditation on the sad, sometimes terrifying moment when living memory becomes history and the living become the dead.

Author: Piotr Pazinski
ISBN-10: 1628972726
ISBN-13: 9781628972726
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
Published: 12/14/2018
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.40h x 6.70w x 0.20d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/2018 pg. 72