The Boarding House

Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. In this debut novel by the Polish writer Piotr P zinski, a young man takes a train to a small town outside of Warsaw to visit a boarding house populated by the last generation of Polish Holocaust survivors. When his grandmother was alive, he had spent a great deal of time at this boarding house, and now he returns, as if to get one last glimpse of the past--to look at old faces and think old thoughts. P zinski's narrative is at once dreamlike and hard-nosed, and it is structured with the haunting simplicity of a fairy tale. The Boarding House is a meditation on the sad, sometimes terrifying moment when living memory becomes history and the living become the dead.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 12/14/2018
ISBN: 9781628972726
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.40h x 6.70w x 0.20d

Review Citations: Library Journal 12/01/2018 pg. 72