Cold Sea Stories by Pawel Huelle
A student pedals an old Ukrainian bicycle between striking factories delivering bulletins in the tumultuous first days of the Polish Solidarity movement; a shepherd watches, unseen, as a strange figure disembarks from a pirate ship to bury a chest on the beach; a prisoner in a Berber dungeon recounts his life's story--the failed pursuit of the world's very first language--by scrawling in the sand on his cell floor. The characters in this mesmerizing short story collection find themselves, willingly or not, at the heart of epic narratives. Against such backdrops as the Baltic coast, Kashubian folklore, Chinese mysticism, and the 9/11 attacks, this book centers around the vision of the refugee: be it the Chechen woman carrying her newborn child across the Polish border, the survivor of the Gulag reappearing on his friends' doorstep, or the stranger who befriends the sole resident of a ghostly Mennonite village in the final days of World War I. Offering insight into Polish and Jewish sociopolitical history, this collection is written in the style and traditions of Polish literature.
A writer whose work is full of depth and allusion--Independent Huelle writes in such an engaging, chatty style that you hardly notice the fraught circumstances underlying every tale. --Guardian Quirky, thoughtful and poetic. --Times
Pawel Huelle was born in 1957. The author of Who Was David Weiser?, Huelle is a novelist, playwright and journalist who has lived most of his life in Gdansk. His novels, Mercedes-Benz and Castorp, translated into many languages, are also published by Serpent's Tail
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| ISBN 13 | 9781905583393 |
| ISBN 10 | 1905583397 |
| Title | Cold Sea Stories |
| Author | Pawel Huelle |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Comma Press |
| Year published | 2011-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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