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ABOUT
THE BOOK

In the Polish City of Gdansk, our narrator Pawel tells of the driving lessons he took in the early 1990s, shortly after the end of communism. As he struggles with the tiny Fiat’s gearbox, causing chaos while stalled at the crossroads, Pawell entertains his instructor Miss Ciwle with stories of his grandparents before the war and of his father in the 1970s, centred on their ownership of Mercedes-Benz cars – the outings, the races, the crashes and the inevitable repairs.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Pawel
Huelle

ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Antonia
Lloyd-Jones

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
Poland
Original Language
Polish
Author
Publisher
Serpent’s Tail
Translator
Antonia Lloyd-Jones

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