Set in the village of Lipce in the Russian Partition area of Poland in the 1880s, The Peasants is no pastoral idyll, but a saga of poverty and hardship, betrayal and jealousy, goss
Originally published in 1961 in ‘Peoples’ Poland’ and now translated for the first time into English, The Memoir of an Anti-Hero describes a nameless fictional narrator’s c
At last – eighty years since it was first published in Poland; after two film adaptations; and having taken up permanent residence on Polish secondary-school reading lists – Zo
It was dark already and the three of them were lying in bed when there was a sound of knocking at the door. Little Paul had only just dropped off, assuming that innocent-angel look
