#RivetingReads: Ursula Phillips Recommends ON THE NIEMEN by Eliza Orzeszkowa

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Orzeszkowa’s On the Niemen (1888) in Michelle Granas’s translation superbly catches the atmosphere of partition and insurrection.

By Ursula Phillips

 

On the Niemen

By Eliza Orzeszkowa

Translated by Michelle Granas

Published by Michelle Granas

Ursula Phillips is a literary historian and translator from Polish. Her translation of Zofia Nałkowska’s novel Choucas (1927) won the Found in Translation Award 2015.

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