Mariusz Szczygieł

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• Nie ma

  In English

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  Nike 2019 · ★ Winner

  Not There

  Nie ma

  Mariusz Szczygieł · 52 when first published

  Nonfiction · 331 pages

  AIAI-generated summary:Pieces of reportage about absence: of people, of the past, of memory, of love. The author talks to a Czech poet, a Ukrainian soldier, a Polish accountant and an Israeli writer, and takes his father to Prague one last time.

• Gottland

  In English

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  Nike 2007 · Shortlist

  Gottland: Mostly True Stories from Half of Czechoslovakia

  Gottland

  Mariusz Szczygieł · 40 when first published

  Nonfiction · 237 pages · Historical, Politics

  AIAI-generated summary:Stories of twentieth-century Czechoslovakia told through the lives of its people: a film star Goebbels wept over, the sculptor of the world's largest Stalin monument, a singer silenced for twenty years, the shoe magnate Tomáš Baťa.