House of Day, House of Night

Name: House of Day, House of Night
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Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9781804271919

by Unknown Author

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2025Fitzcarraldo EditionsISBN 9781804271919

Social life and customs Fiction Fiction, general Pg7179.o37 d6613 2003 891.8/5373

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"Nowa Ruda is a small town in Silesia, an area that has been a part of Poland, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia in the past. When the narrator moves into the area, she and discovers everyone--and everything--has its own story. With the help of Marta, her enigmatic neighbor, the narrator accumulates these stories, tracing the history of Nowa Ruda from the founding of the town to the lives of its saints, from the caller who wins the radio quiz every day to the tale of the man who causes international tension when he dies on the border, one leg on the Polish side, the other on the Czech side. Each of the stories represents a brick and they interlock to reveal the immense monument that is the town. What emerges is the message that the history of any place--no matter how humble--is limitless, that by describing or digging at the roots of a life, a house, or a neighborhood, one can see all the connections, not only with one's self and one's dreams but also with all of the universe."--Amazon.com

Publication Details

Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Published: 2025
ISBN: 9781804271919

About Unknown Author

Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk (ur. 29 stycznia 1962 w Sulechowie) – polska pisarka, eseistka, poetka i autorka scenariuszy, psycholożka, laureatka Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury za rok 2018, laureatka The Man Booker International Prize 2018 za powieść Bieguni oraz dwukrotna laureatka Nagrody Literackiej „Nike” za powieści: *Bieguni* (2008) i *Księgi Jakubowe* (2015). ---------- Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk ([tɔˈkart͡ʂuk]; born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. In 2019, she was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Polish female prose writer for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life." For her novel *Flights,* Tokarczuk has been awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize (translated by Jennifer Croft). Her works include Primeval and *Other Times, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead,* and *The Books of Jacob.* [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Tokarczuk)