How do animals see the world of humans? What does a pet turtle feel when his owner forgets all about him one day, hunched over the keybord of a new computer? How does a dog react to his owner’s divorce? What does a bacteria think, scrutinised daily by the huge eye of the microscope?
Ten Parts of the World is a highly readable collection of stories featuring fifteen-year-olds living in different parts of the world today, from Japan to India to Poland and the Ukraine. Showcasing the striking differences in the standard of life and the opportunities available to the teenagers, the stories affirm the power of friendship and the need to hold on firmly to one’s hopes and dreams. Suitable for readers aged 12–15, with strong cross-over appeal.
Krzysztof Maćkowski says the following about The Badeni Report, his literary debut: “I decided to situate my story within a modernist idiom, because I lacked a sensible equivalent for a contemporary story. While renovating my house I found my master’s thesis and then came the idea to borrow some cultural/literary tricks from it..."
A beautiful collection of texts by a wellknown and respected Polish expert on the Orient. The book consist in a series of essays published in the ZNAK Monthly. Based on the author’s own experience, the texts are devoted both to everyday life in Asia and to cultural issues. Kłodkowski presents and insightful analysis and interpretation of various phenomena typical of that culture and he does it in the way that is proper to the best school of Polish reportage.
Polish Silesia, the fifth part of the world, is a place where borders disappear and history plays with people and nationalities. It is not possible to close this place within a rigid framework or to understand it from the beginning to the end. All one can do is to discover it slowly, like a kaleidoscope image made of a thousand amusing, fascinating and mysterious stories.
It took Kazimierz Kutz several years to write his first novel.