Ashes and Diamonds

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ISBN 978-0-8101-1519-4
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Contributors
Jerzy Andrzejewski (Author)
D. J. Welsh (Translator)
Heinrich Boll (Introduction by)
Barbara Niemczyk (Foreword by)
Publication Date
March 1997
Series
European Classics
Categories
Literature In Translation
Fiction: Eastern European
Page Count
239 pages
Trim Size
5 1/8 x 7 3/4
ISBN
0-8101-1519-0

Ashes and Diamonds

Jerzy Andrzejewski

Originally published in Poland in 1948, and acclaimed as one of the finest postwar Polish novels, Ashes and Diamonds takes place in the spring of 1945, as the nation is in the throes of its transformation to People' Poland. Communists, socialists, and nationalists; thieves and black marketeers; servants and fading aristocrats; veteran terrorists and bands of murderous children bewitched by the lure of crime and adventure--all of these converge on a provincial town's chief hotel, a microcosm of an uprooted world.


About the Author

Jerzy Andrzejewski (1909-1983) published his first book, Unavoidable Roads, a collection of short stories, in 1936. Two years later he won several prizes, incuding one from the Polish Academy of Literature, for his first novel, Mode of the Heart. Ashes and Diamonds, originally published in 1948, was made into a highly esteemed film and was awarded the International Critics' Prize at the 1959 Venice Film Festival.

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