{"title":"Andrzej Bursa","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"killing-auntie-and-other-work-book-andrzej-bursa-9780955728587","title":"Killing Auntie and Other Work","description":"Poems, parables, short stories and a novella by an acclaimed Polish writer newly translated into English.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49535453331729,"sku":"GOR007361285","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0955728584.jpg?v=1750948099"},{"product_id":"killing-auntie-book-andrzej-bursa-9781939931214","title":"Killing Auntie","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Deliciously wicked ... readers will also find plenty to enjoy (one sequence of unwitting cannibalism is particularly memorable).\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Fast-moving and witty in style and tone, this novel is one not soon forgotten.\"--\u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"There's considerable charm to Bursa's clever variation on the story of youth seeking purpose ... A nicely off-beat little novel.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Complete Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Polish postwar firebrand Andrzej Bursa acquired a reputation as a quick-burning, existentially tormented rebel. . . . Yet Bursa's dark humor and deadpan satire . . . keep utter bleakness at bay.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A revolution against the banality of everyday life.\"--\u003ci\u003eGazeta Krakowska\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA young university student named Jurek, with no particular ambitions or talents, is adrift. After his doting aunt asks him to perform a small chore, he decides to kill her for no good reason other than, perhaps, boredom. \u003ci\u003eKilling Auntie\u003c\/i\u003e follows Jurek as he seeks to dispose of the corpse--a task more difficult than one might imagine--and then falls in love with a girl he meets on a train. Can he tell her what he's done? Will that ruin everything?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I'm convinced--simply--that we are all guilty,\" says Jurek, and his adventures with nosy neighbors, false-toothed grandmothers, and love-making lynxes shed light on how an entire society becomes involved in the murder and disposal of dear old Auntie. This is a short comedic masterpiece combining elements of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jean-Paul Sartre, Franz Kafka, and Joseph Heller, coming together in the end to produce an unforgettable tale of murder and--just maybe--redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrzej Bursa\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1934 in Krakow, Poland, and died twenty-five years later. In his brief lifetime he composed some of the most original Polish writing of the twentieth century. \u003ci\u003eKilling Auntie\u003c\/i\u003e is his only novel. His brilliant career and tragic early death established him as a cult figure among restless and disenchanted youth.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50267694629137,"sku":"CIN1939931215VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51094977315089,"sku":"GOR012027083","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51324258517265,"sku":"CIN1939931215G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52757030568209,"sku":"NIN9781939931214","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1939931215.jpg?v=1750727755"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-andrzej-bursa.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}