{"product_id":"the-house-with-the-stained-glass-window-9780857057143","title":"The House with the Stained-Glass Window","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eZanna Sloniowska writes beautifully; with empathy, sensitivity, and with real political impact\u003c\/b\u003e . . . \u003cb\u003ean important new voice in Polish literature OLGA TOKARCZUK, Nobel Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eFlights\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRemarkable, a gripping, Lvivian evocation of a city and a family across a long and painful century . . . A novel of life and survival across the ages PHILIPPE SANDS, author of \u003ci\u003eEast West Street\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmid the turbulence of 20th century Lviv, meet four generations of women from the same fractious family, living beneath one roof and each striving to find their way across the decades of upheaval in an ever-shifting city. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst there is Great-Granma, tiny and terrifying, shaped by a life of exile, hardship and doomed love, now fighting to keep her iron grip on the lives of her daughter, granddaughter and great-granddaughter. Then there is Aba, arthritic but devoted; cowed and despised by her mother, her one chance of happiness thwarted and her hopes of studying painting crushed. Thirdly, Marianna, the brilliant opera star: bold, beautiful and a fearless crusader for Ukrainian independence, who is shot during a demonstration and whose life and martyrdom casts a shadow upon the young life of the fourth and final woman, her daughter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMore important even than these four women though is the character of the city of Lviv (or Lwów, or Lvov, depending on the point in history). A city of markets and monuments, streets and spires, where history and the present collide, civilisations clash and stories rise up on every corner. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Quercus Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/19\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780857057143\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272","brand":"Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Zanna Sloniowska","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42148931633333,"sku":"9780857057143","price":13.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b0b8bf64-3409-4150-a420-b0e0601ec8af.jpg?v=1653486596","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-house-with-the-stained-glass-window-9780857057143","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}