The Wisdom of Uncle Kasimir

By Kasimir Czerniak, Gabi Czerniak, William Czerniak-Jones

Book Overview

Borat (of Ali G fame) meets Bridget Jones' Diary in this madcap send-up of old world wisdom. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0747579040
• ISBN13: 9780747579045
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 10.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

irreverent and most of all, funny funny funny!

The setup is simple. Descendants of an amazing Polish millionaire feel a duty to share his advice and wisdom with a wider audience, the contents of a small chest and the correspondence sent him by his extended family over the course of a lifetime. What follows is an extremely funny selection of material, something like the Pickwick Papers, as Uncle provides military strategies to outwit a bully, advises a drama student on the mysteries of attracting women, details the preferred means of painting his dog, and so on. (for anybody who is a fan of the dreadful Arthur Sarnoff paintings of dogs playing poker, this part is great!) Mr Kasimir has a unique way with the English language, for sure, and his tales of his past make for a really funny and stimulating book. While outwardly absurd, the content of Uncle's ruminations do indeed contain many pearls of wisdom, and the breadth of his experience, his mad dash through history, provides a rich background to this little gem of a book. As Uncle says, i am waiting for next Uncle Kasimir instalment like "like pike who observe duckling"!