A Thousand Peaceful Cities

By Jerzy Pilch, David Frick

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Open Letter, November 2010

Fiction > Literary

eBook release: November 2011

ISBN: 9781934824481

Language: English

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Synopsis

A highly original voice.Washington Times----A comic gem, Jerzy Pilchs A THOUSAND PEACEFUL CITIES takes place in 1963, in the latter days of the Polish post-Stalinist thaw. The narrator, Jerzyk (little Jerzy), is a teenager who is keenly interested in his father, a retired postal administrator, and his fathers closest friend, Mr. Trąba, a failed Lutheran clergyman, alcoholic, and would-be Polish insurrectionist. One drunken afternoon, Mr. Trąba and the narrators father decide to take charge of their lives and do one final good turn for humanity: travel to distant Warsaw and assassinate the de facto Polish head of state, First Secretary of the Polish United Workers Party, Władysław Gomułkaassassinating Mao Tse-tung, after all, would be impractical. And they decide to involve Jerzyk in their scheme . . .-----About the author:Jerzy Pilch is one of Poland's most important contemporary writers and journalists. In addition to his long-running satirical newspaper column, Pilch has published several novels, and has been nominated for Poland's prestigious NIKE Literary Award four times; he finally won the Award in 2001 for The Mighty Angel, which is also available in English translation.

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