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Things I Didn't Throw Out
Rzeczy, których nie wyrzuciłem
Marcin Wicha (born 1972)
Translated by Marta Dziurosz
English editions
In EnglishThings I Didn't Throw Out
Daunt Books · United Kingdom · 2021 · Paperback
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Sorting the books and things his late mother left behind, the narrator reconstructs her: a strong woman who lived by her own rules in communist and then capitalist Poland, alert to words and impossible to manipulate. She was difficult and brave. There is no sentimentality, which she hated, but tenderness and humour, and the story of a postwar generation, promised a fine life, beginning to go.
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About the book
- Form
- Nonfiction
- Length
- 182 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Poland
- First published
- 2017 by Wydawnictwo Karakter
- Author's age
- 45 when first published
- ISBN
9788365271389 (original)
9781914198021 (Daunt Books, United Kingdom)
- More
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