Would you throw up the world for a love at first sight?
It's 1955, the darkest days of the Stalinist regime in Poland. Basic essentials, like sugar and coffee, are lacking; not just travel, but any contact with abroad is forbidden; all citizens are divided into categories based on their birth--whether their parents were manual workers (good) or landowners (bad); your category determines what school you can go to or what job you can have; you are constantly herded to large, officially staged demonstrations in support of the regime; spies and informers are everywhere; speaking openly even in your own home is dangerous; people's lives are dictated and ordered about by the members of the security apparatus in the name of an officially required ideology but really for their own benefit.
And one day, out of the blue, into this hell steps in a magical figure: a beautiful, naïve, charming Italian man blissfully unaware of all the realities. When he proposes, he becomes your ticket to a better world.
Would you throw up home, family, friends and follow him? What would you do?
The starter volume in a 10-volume best-selling Polish saga, now for the first time in English. The saga tells the tale of three generations of women living in an ancient house on the outskirts of Warsaw. As dramatic historical events unfold about them, family secrets are revealed and true identities discovered. Full of situational detail, the saga conveys a powerful sense of time and place.
Genre: General Fiction
It's 1955, the darkest days of the Stalinist regime in Poland. Basic essentials, like sugar and coffee, are lacking; not just travel, but any contact with abroad is forbidden; all citizens are divided into categories based on their birth--whether their parents were manual workers (good) or landowners (bad); your category determines what school you can go to or what job you can have; you are constantly herded to large, officially staged demonstrations in support of the regime; spies and informers are everywhere; speaking openly even in your own home is dangerous; people's lives are dictated and ordered about by the members of the security apparatus in the name of an officially required ideology but really for their own benefit.
And one day, out of the blue, into this hell steps in a magical figure: a beautiful, naïve, charming Italian man blissfully unaware of all the realities. When he proposes, he becomes your ticket to a better world.
Would you throw up home, family, friends and follow him? What would you do?
The starter volume in a 10-volume best-selling Polish saga, now for the first time in English. The saga tells the tale of three generations of women living in an ancient house on the outskirts of Warsaw. As dramatic historical events unfold about them, family secrets are revealed and true identities discovered. Full of situational detail, the saga conveys a powerful sense of time and place.
Genre: General Fiction
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