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Chasing the king of hearts
- Title
- Chasing the king of hearts / Hanna Krall ; translated from the Polish by Philip Boehm ; afterword by Mariusz Szczygieł.
- Author
- Krall, Hanna
- Publication
- New York, NY : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2017.
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- Description
- 193 pages : illustrations; 19 cm
- Summary
- "This canonical work of Polish reportage is a terse, unexpected human lesson born of an occupation-era love story. Based on a true story, the raw interplay of history and fictionalization spans the Warsaw Ghetto, the war-torn countryside, and the nightmare of Auschwitz. This is the book's first US publication. Hanna Krall was born in 1935 in Poland and survived the Holocaust by hiding in a cupboard. She has received numerous Polish and international awards, such as the Polish PEN Club Prize and the German Wurth Preis for European Literature 2012, and has been translated into seventeen languages"--
- "When her husband is arrested in Nazi-occupied Poland, Izolda endures the Warsaw Ghetto, Auschwitz, among other trials, to ensure his safety"--
- Uniform Title
- Król kier znów na wylocie. English
- Alternative Title
- Król kier znów na wylocie.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Note
- Previously published in Polish as Król kier znów na wylocie. Warszawa : "Świat Ksiaż̜ki", 2006.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Polish.
- Call Number
- JFC 19-169
- ISBN
- 9781558619449
- 1558619445
- LCCN
- 2016034906
- 99977378164
- OCLC
- 945949030
- Author
- Krall, Hanna, author.
- Title
- Chasing the king of hearts / Hanna Krall ; translated from the Polish by Philip Boehm ; afterword by Mariusz Szczygieł.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2017.
- Edition
- First Feminist Press edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Translated from the Polish.
- Local Note
- REPRINT OF 2013 ED.
- Chronological Term
- 1939-1945
- Added Author
- Boehm, Philip, translator.Szczygieł, Mariusz, 1966- writer of afterword.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 99977378164
- Research Call Number
- JFC 19-169