A Treatise On Shelling Beans

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A Treatise On Shelling Beans
Archipelago Books
Mysliwski Wieslaw
2013-12-05
376
150 x 188 mm
paperback
9781935744900
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Our hero and narrator is the aging caretaker of cottages at a summer resort. A mysterious visitor inspires him to share the story of his long life: we witness a happy childhood cut short by the war, his hiding from the Nazis buried in a heap of potatoes, his plodding attempts to play the saxophone, the brutal murder of his family, loves lost but remembered, and footloose travels abroad. Told in the manner of friends and neighbors swapping stories over the mundane task of shelling beans--in the grand oral tradition of Myśliwski's celebrated Stone Upon Stone--each anecdote, lived experience, and memory accrues cross-stitched layers of meaning. By turns hilarious and poignant, A Treatise on Shelling Beans is an epic recounting of a life that, while universal, is anything but ordinary.
Author
Mysliwski Wieslaw
Published
2013-12-05
Pages
376
Format
150 x 188 mm
Cover
paperback

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