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Piotr Kłodkowski
The Exquisite Taste of the Orient

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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.

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Kazimierz Kutz
The Fifth Part of the World

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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.

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Małgorzata Szejnert
The Gateway Island

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Małgorzata Szejnert, an outstanding journalist, head of the
reportage department at the Polish biggest daily, Gazeta
Wyborcza, the author of Czarny ogród (Black Garden), the
book honoured with the Polish Public Media “Cogito” Prize
in 2008, has now turned her attention to Ellis Island. The
tiny scrap of land just off the coast near New York City
has long been called the “gateway to America.” Since late
19th century to the 1950s it was where all immigrants to
the United States from all over the world arrived, in total
nearly twelve million people.

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Wiesław Myśliwski
The Horizon

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This is a new edition of one of the most important novels of the last decade, which won the 1997 Nike Prize. The novel is set in a provincial world, seen through the eyes of an adolescent boy.

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Józef Czapski
The Inhuman Land

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This book, together with Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s A World Apart and Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, forms the horrifying canon of witness to a hecatomb of suffering caused by enforcing the communist utopia with unfathomable cruelty by the Soviet apparatus of violence and oppression. Czesław Miłosz praised it in A Year of the Hunter for being an undaunted record of a terrible truth, which is certain to endure longer than any work of art.

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