The Story
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In a village in the remote countryside of southern Poland, itâs as if the poverty and brutality emanate like mist from the cursed dirt.
 The thirteen interconnected stories in White Nights tell of families, scarred by tragedy but also by each other. Whether by digging a pond deep in the woods, taking a lover, raising a family, or simply trying to get ahead of the endless work as the thunder rolls over their home, Urszula Honekâs characters share, with the sincerest care and honesty, a localâyet so clearly universalâstory of ruin and hope. Kate Websterâs blazing translation of Urszulaâs poetic and earthen prose brings us to places seldom seen in literature, where the people do not ask to be understood, but merely to be heard.
Paperback | 178 pages | 5.00" x 8.00"
Description
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZEÂ
In a village in the remote countryside of southern Poland, itâs as if the poverty and brutality emanate like mist from the cursed dirt.
 The thirteen interconnected stories in White Nights tell of families, scarred by tragedy but also by each other. Whether by digging a pond deep in the woods, taking a lover, raising a family, or simply trying to get ahead of the endless work as the thunder rolls over their home, Urszula Honekâs characters share, with the sincerest care and honesty, a localâyet so clearly universalâstory of ruin and hope. Kate Websterâs blazing translation of Urszulaâs poetic and earthen prose brings us to places seldom seen in literature, where the people do not ask to be understood, but merely to be heard.
Paperback | 178 pages | 5.00" x 8.00"
