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Seven short pieces form the portrait of a divided, frightened woman. The nameless heroine, whose life resembles the author's, has an Italian father and lives in two worlds, the better, lovelier Milan and the worse, uglier Warsaw. Her mother is emotionally cold because there is 'too much past': she was a prisoner in a concentration camp. To live, the mother had to wall herself off from that past; to live, the daughter must face it. The book shows the violence of the war passing to generations born years after it ended.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

143 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Poland, Italy

First published

2011 by Wydawnictwo Nisza

Author's age

56 when first published

ISBN

9788362795093 (original)