Lit in Translation

Żanna Słoniowska

Born 1978 · Poland, Ukraine

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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    Warwick Prize 2018 · Shortlist

    The House with the Stained-Glass Window

    Dom z witrażem

    Żanna Słoniowska · 37 when first published

    Novel · 272 pages · Love, Historical

    Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

    AI-generated summary:In Lviv, a young woman meets Mikołaj, an older man, while trying to save a huge stained-glass window in an old tenement, and as their affair deepens he shows her a city of crumbling balconies and toppled Lenin statues.