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The Issa Valley

by Czesław Miłosz, Louis Iribarne

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304 pages1955Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN 9780374516956

About this book

Thomas, the child-protagonist of The Issa Valley, is subject to both the contradictions of nature in this severe northern setting and sometimes enchanting, sometimes brutal timbre of village life. There are the deep pine and spruce forests, the grouse and the deer, and the hunter's gun. There is Magdalena, the beautiful mistress of the village priest, whose suicide unleashes her ghost to haunt the parish. There are also the loving grandparents with whom Thomas lives, who provide a balance of the not-quite-Dostoevskian devils that visit the villagers. In the end, Thomas is severed from his childhood and the Issa River, and leaves prepared for adventures beyond his valley. Poetic and richly imagined, The Issa Valley is a masterful work of fiction from one of our greatest living poets.

Publication Details

Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published
1955
Pages
304
ISBN
9780374516956
Language
en

About Czesław Miłosz

Czesław Miłosz was a Lithuanian born Polish poet, prose writer and translator. From 1961 to 1998 he was a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1980 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czes%C5%82aw_Mi%C5%82osz

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