Beech Boat by Janina Koscialkowska
Beech Boat by Janina Koscialkowska. 1993 Readers International edition, 295 pages. Translated by Anna Marianska. Koscialkowska is a Polish writer who wrote in exile since the 1940s. According to Publishers Weekly: "Near the beginning of this fictional memoir of the Polish diaspora, we are told by the narrator, Janina, that ``there is nothing more pleasant, nothing more real than digressions.'' Indeed, digressions dominate this work: although based in London of 1945-46, the text frequently slides into brief vignettes from the war years."
Condition: VG, some foxing to jacket and endpapers
"The cemetery, like most similar places in Poland, lay in wooded verdure but never seemed to me to offer any kind of isolation."
Beech Boat by Janina Koscialkowska. 1993 Readers International edition, 295 pages. Translated by Anna Marianska. Koscialkowska is a Polish writer who wrote in exile since the 1940s. According to Publishers Weekly: "Near the beginning of this fictional memoir of the Polish diaspora, we are told by the narrator, Janina, that ``there is nothing more pleasant, nothing more real than digressions.'' Indeed, digressions dominate this work: although based in London of 1945-46, the text frequently slides into brief vignettes from the war years."
Condition: VG, some foxing to jacket and endpapers
"The cemetery, like most similar places in Poland, lay in wooded verdure but never seemed to me to offer any kind of isolation."