Ludzie z nieba

1905. Kora spends her childhood in Bieniakonie, a small town south of Vilnius, with a twin brother and six sisters named Hyacinth, Viburnum, Rose, Dahlia, Rue and Hortensia; she is the only girl not named after a flower. She walks backwards like a crayfish, is sometimes a dog, and dreams of another world, of adventure, of a prince and of her brother Franciszek, who has left for school and will one day be Poland's most famous pilot. A Roma woman foretells a disturbing future for her. Ten years later, refugees pass through the town, and Kora's world ceases to exist. The novel draws on the lives of the aviators Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

340 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Belarus, Poland, from 1905

First published

2024 by Wydawnictwo Literackie

Author's age

48 when first published

ISBN

9788308081976 (original)