The Noonday Cemetery and Other Stories

by Gustaw Herling-Grudziński

Book Overview

The Noonday Cemetery & Other Stories, selected by Herling himself shortly before his death in 2000, is a collection of thirteen brilliant stories spanning the last twenty years of his life. His novel The Island was published to great acclaim in 1993, and his memoir, A World Apart, is among the most powerful accounts of life in the Soviet gulag. Volcano and Miracle, published in 1996, contains short fiction and prose writings from his Journal Written...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081121639X
• ISBN13: 9780811216395
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 7.8"