Bøger af Zofia Nalkowska

Available for the first time in English, Zofia Nalkowska's Boundary was originally published as Granica in Poland in 1935. The modernist novel was widely discussed upon its publication and praised for its psychological realism and stylistic and compositional artistry. Over the years, it has been translated into several languages and made into a...

Written in 1922, just four years after Poland achieved independence from its neighboring empires, this novel focuses on a Warsaw community of officers, bureaucrats, intellectuals, wives, and lovers, all of them adrift in a hell of their own making-the long-sought freedom to shape their own destiny.

Named for a species of blackbird native to the novel's setting in the Swiss alps, this tale profiles a motley collection of patients inhabiting a sanatorium. Somewhat allegorical in nature, each character hails from a different country and each espouses a distinct political viewpoint.