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The Bronski House | 
 enlarge | Author: Philip Marsden
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1675445
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.8 x 1
ISBN: 155970392X
Dewey Decimal Number: 947.8084092
EAN: 9781559703925
ASIN: 155970392X
Publication Date: June 17, 1997
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More than fifty years after fleeing the Russians and Nazis, poet Zofia Ilinska returns to the tiny Eastern European village of her birth to find her old home and to rediscover her childhood and the history of her family."
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So light of touch but yet so far reaching July 27, 1999
Johanna sham001@sham001.screaming.net
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The language is so poetic and fluent, it hurls you away, lightly and fluffily to a different era; a world long gone and forgotten. It has something of an East European Gone With The Wind theme, only much more concise and fleetingly. I longed for more pages, a hundred more, fivehundred more, in this novel too timid and subdued somehow. Perfect script for a fullblown-no-expenses -spared Hollywood film!
A poetic evocation of things lost August 11, 2003
Patrik Enander (Goeteborg, Sweden)
Philip Marsden's book is a small masterpiece. It is poetic and evocative. He has a sharp sense of details. No wonder he has now written his first novel after a couple of travel books.
Trough his friendship with Zofia Illinski and access to her mother's letters, diaries etc he portrays a lost world, the upper classes in Poland and Belarus between the wars, and how their world is completely shattered by it.
The various personalities in the book are fascinating among them Zofia's mother who is an exceptional woman, strong, talented, beautiful and with a spirit that saves the family from extinction.
Marsden's journey together with Zofia to her childhood is very moving.
All in all this is a very good read. You don't have to be interested in Poland or in history and the likes. This book will interest and move you.
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