2004 Shortlist
House of Day, House of Night
ABOUT
THE BOOK
The town of Nowa Ruda and its surrounding countryside is a place of shifting identities. Polish now, it has been German, Czech and Austro-Hungarian among other nationalities in the past. Here, at the heart of Europe, where borders move and languages and their speakers come and go, ordinary lives are not as simple as they appear. When the narrator and her husband settle in the area, she soon discovers that the locals all have their secrets. With the help of Marta, her enigmatic elderly neighbour, she gathers their stories, moving back and forth in time and between truth and myth, disentangling the events of their days from the dreams of their nights.
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Antonia
Lloyd-Jones
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Date published
23/07/2002
Country
Poland
Original Language
Polish
Publisher
Granta Books
Translator
Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Nominating Library
Knjiznice Grada Zagreba - Croatia,
Regionální knihovna Karviná (Regional Library of Karviná) - Czech Republic,
Katona József Library of Bács-Kiskun County - Hungary,
Wojewódzka Biblioteka Publiczna im. Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego w Łodzi (Jozef Pilsudski Regional and Municipal Public Library in Lodz) - Poland
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