The House with the Stained-Glass Window
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The House with the Stained-Glass Window by Zanna Sloniowska
The acclaimed story of a young girl's awakening - set in the the evocative, beautiful Ukrainian/Polish city of Lviv
The House with the Stained-Glass Window is remarkable, a gripping, Lvivian evocation of a city and a family across a long and painful century, at once personal and political, a novel of life and survival across the ages * Philippe Sands *
Zanna Sloniowska writes beautifully; with empathy, sensitivity, and with real political impactAs a Ukrainian from the multicultural city of Lviv, she provides an important new voice in Polish literature. -- Olga Tokarczuk
Few novels will engage the heart and mind as cohesively as this emphatic performance that triumphs through its depiction of the human stories overshadowed by history. * Financial Times. *
Sloniowska writes subtly and beautifully - every phrase conjures up images, casting colourful lights just like the stained-glass window of the title.
This story could only have happened in Ukraine. And then again it could have happened anywhere, because the blood on the blue-and-yellow flag is just the beginning of an intimate tale about four generations of women. * Zwierciadlo. *
Sloniowska is a fascinating story-teller who also gives insight into the reality of life in Ukraine. This is an astonishing literary discovery. * Polityka. *
A city of women's mysteries, and History, which the author constantly re-interprets. Zanna Sloniowska surprises and seduces. * Krytycznym Okiem. *
This novel was written as a challenge to crushing, cruel history; it arose from a desire to give a voice to the individual experiences of women. But at a certain point it turns in a direction contrary to its original ambitions, and the counter-history disappears in the fog of exploding smoke grenades. * Gazeta Wyborcza. *
A moving, incisive saga about women entangled by historical events. * Newsweek Polska. *
Zanna Sloniowska writes beautifully; with empathy, sensitivity, and with real political impactAs a Ukrainian from the multicultural city of Lviv, she provides an important new voice in Polish literature. -- Olga Tokarczuk
Few novels will engage the heart and mind as cohesively as this emphatic performance that triumphs through its depiction of the human stories overshadowed by history. * Financial Times. *
Sloniowska writes subtly and beautifully - every phrase conjures up images, casting colourful lights just like the stained-glass window of the title.
This story could only have happened in Ukraine. And then again it could have happened anywhere, because the blood on the blue-and-yellow flag is just the beginning of an intimate tale about four generations of women. * Zwierciadlo. *
Sloniowska is a fascinating story-teller who also gives insight into the reality of life in Ukraine. This is an astonishing literary discovery. * Polityka. *
A city of women's mysteries, and History, which the author constantly re-interprets. Zanna Sloniowska surprises and seduces. * Krytycznym Okiem. *
This novel was written as a challenge to crushing, cruel history; it arose from a desire to give a voice to the individual experiences of women. But at a certain point it turns in a direction contrary to its original ambitions, and the counter-history disappears in the fog of exploding smoke grenades. * Gazeta Wyborcza. *
A moving, incisive saga about women entangled by historical events. * Newsweek Polska. *
Zanna Sloniowska was born in 1978 in Lviv and is a journalist and translator. She now lives in Kraków. She is the first winner of the Znak Publishers' Literary Prize, for which her novel was chosen from among over a thousand entries. In 2016, Zanna Sloniowska won the Conrad Award, the Polish award for first novels.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780857057143 |
| ISBN 10 | 0857057146 |
| Title | The House with the Stained-Glass Window |
| Author | Zanna Sloniowska |
| Series | Maclehose Press Editions |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Quercus Publishing |
| Year published | 2019-01-24 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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