β Brian J. Clarke
π Fiction
π
2010
π UND
β 33 KB
π 2 views
β¦ LIBER β¦
A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
β Scribed by Brigid Pasulka
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 200 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
On the eve of World War II, in a place called Half-Village, a young man nicknamed the Pigeon falls in love with a girl fabled for her angelic looks. To court Anielica HetmanskΓ‘ he offers up his "golden hands" to transform her family's modest hut into a beautiful home, thereby building his way into her heart.
Then war arrives to cut short their courtship, delay their marriage, and wreak havoc in all their lives, even sending the young lovers far from home to the promise of a new life in KrakΓ³w.
Nearly fifty years later, their granddaughter, Beata, repeats their postwar journey, seeking a new life in the fairy-tale city of her grandmother's stories. But when she arrives in KrakΓ³w, instead of the whispered prosperity of the New Poland, she discovers a city caught between its future and its past, and full of frustrated youths. Taken in by her toughtalking cousin Irena and Irena's glamorous daughter Magda, Beata struggles to find her own place in 1990s KrakΓ³w...
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