Janusz Anderman Books

Short stories portray the efforts of ordinary Polish citizens to cope with life in a totalitarian state

Polish

Enter the gas-lit streets of post-war Prague, the steelworks run by singed men, the covered market that smells of new-born babes, the cacophonous open-air dance hall. Mr Kafka is avoiding his landladyâe(tm)s blueberry wine breath, a stonemason witnesses the destruction of a monument to Stalin he risked his life to build, and factory men strain to catch a glimpse of a beautiful bathing murderess. In these newly discovered stories, Hrabal captures men and women in an eerily beautiful nightmare and their spirit in all its misery and splendour.

Verhalen over het Polen van na de Tweede Wereldoorlog.