Lit in Translation

Sońka

Sońka

Ignacy Karpowicz (born 1976)

Translated by Maya Zakrzewska-Pim

English editions

In English

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For Sońka everything ended long ago, with the war: she lived and felt so much then that afterwards she neither lived nor felt, keeping only memories and a dog collar with a Gothic inscription. A chance meeting on a village road with Igor, a sought-after theatre director stranded beyond mobile range, lets her story finally be heard. He turns it into a play as she speaks, making his own version of events, until Ignacy, whom Igor has tried hard to forget, turns up at the village cottage. A war romance about then and now, here and there.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
204 pages in the original
Genres
War, Love, Historical (assigned by AI)
First published
2014 by Wydawnictwo Literackie
Author's age
38 when first published
ISBN

9788308088371 (original)

9781628972351 (Dalkey Archive Press, United States)

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