Pióropusz

A cocky boy grows up after the war in a family of poor village folk and thieves. His illiterate father, after a scuffle with the teacher and the theft and destruction of the school blackboard, is declared an enemy of the people and locked in a Stalinist prison. The boy and his mother fight for justice, and having to write petitions gives the boy a cult of the written word that transforms him. A symbolic gift from his father, a stolen pen with a gold nib, decides his future.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

317 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Family, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Poland, after 1945

First published

2010 by Wydawnictwo Literackie

Author's age

74 when first published

ISBN

9788308048115 (original)

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