The Boarding House

By Piotr Paziński

Book Overview

Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. In this debut novel by the Polish writer Piotr P zinski, a young man takes a train to a small town outside of Warsaw to visit a boarding house populated by the last generation of Polish Holocaust survivors. When his grandmother was alive, he had spent a great deal of time at this boarding house, and now he returns, as if to get one last glimpse of the past--to look at old faces and think old thoughts. P zinski's narrative is at once dreamlike and hard-nosed, and it is structured with the haunting simplicity of a fairy tale. The Boarding House is a meditation on the sad, sometimes terrifying moment when living memory becomes history and the living become the dead.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628972726
• ISBN13: 9781628972726
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.7" x 8.4"