A Treatise on Shelling Beans by Mysliwski, Wieslaw

A Treatise on Shelling Beans (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781935744900)

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Format: Paperback
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A Treatise on Shelling Beans by Mysliwski, Wieslaw

A Treatise on Shelling Beans

$22.00
A Treatise on Shelling Beans by Mysliwski, Wieslaw

A Treatise on Shelling Beans

$22.00
Format: Paperback
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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: Wieslaw Mysliwski
ISBN-10: 1935744909
ISBN-13: 9781935744900
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Language: English
Published: 12/03/2013
Pages: 450
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 7.53h x 5.98w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/23/2013
By Wieslaw Mysliwski
By Wieslaw Mysliwski
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Wieslaw Mysliwski (pron: VEE-slaw Mish-LIF-ski) is the only writer to have twice received the Nike Prize, Poland's most prestigious literary award: in 1997 for his novel Horizon and again in 2007 for A Treatise on Shelling Beans. He worked as an editor at the People's Publishing Cooperative and at the magazines Regiony and Sycyna. In addition to the Nike Prize, Mysliwski has received the Stanislaw Pietak Prize, the Arts Ministry Prize, the State Prize, the Reymont Prize, and the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation Award. The author lives in Poland.

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