Ashes and Diamonds

Ashes and Diamonds
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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 0810115190
ISBN-13 : 9780810115194
Rating : 4/5 (194 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Ashes and Diamonds by : Jerzy Andrzejewski

Download or read book Ashes and Diamonds written by Jerzy Andrzejewski and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in Poland in 1948, and acclaimed as one of the finest postwar Polish novels, Ashes and Diamonds takes place in the spring of 1945, as the nation is in the throes of its transformation to People' Poland. Communists, socialists, and nationalists; thieves and black marketeers; servants and fading aristocrats; veteran terrorists and bands of murderous children bewitched by the lure of crime and adventure--all of these converge on a provincial town's chief hotel, a microcosm of an uprooted world.


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