Kajś. Opowieść o Górnym Śląsku

For most of his life the author thought of Silesians as cavemen with a pickaxe and a roulade, and denied his own roots. His ancestors seemed to come from another planet, with names like Urban, Reinhold and Liselotte. Then came family discoveries: a Nazi brothel keeper, a major from the Caucasus, a great-grandfather on 'business trips' in Poland in September 1939, a gravestone with the name scraped off. He realised that an alternative history had happened over the fence, and went to look around: nearly a million people claiming a 'non-existent' nationality, an ecological disaster, separatists and fans who support the wrong national team.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

317 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Politics, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Poland

First published

2020 by Wydawnictwo Czarne

Author's age

31 when first published

ISBN

9788381910774 (original)

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