num_pages: 239
description: Originally published in Poland in 1948, and acclaimed as one of the finest post-war Polish novels, Ashes and Diamonds takes place in the spring of 1945, as the nation is in the throes of its transformation to People' Poland. Communists, socialists, and nationalists; thieves and black marketeers; servants and fading aristocrats; veteran terrorists and bands of murderous children bewitched by the lure of crime and adventure--all of these converge on a provincial town's chief hotel, a microcosm of an uprooted world.
language: English
title: Ashes and Diamonds
titlecomplete: Ashes and Diamonds (European Classics)
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, Polish Literature, Politics, Poland, War, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 813
places: Poland
publisher: Northwestern University Press