Bambino

Maria, Janek, Anna and Stefan came to Szczecin after the war from different parts of the country, not by choice but because history moved the borders and tore them from their roots. Only Ula has always lived here; born Ulrike into a German family, she covers the traces of her old identity in the new Poland. In the city risen from rubble they want to love, laugh, have children and go to the seaside. They have no family here, but meet at the Bambino milk bar, where some of them work. The novel spans communist Poland from the war to 1981.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

349 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Poland, 1945–1981

First published

2008 by Świat Książki

Author's age

45 when first published

ISBN

9788324712618 (original)