num_pages: 239
description: Ashes and Diamonds takes us to a provincial town in the spring of 1945. The nation is in the throes of transformation to People's 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 these converge on the town's chief hotel, a microcosm of an uprooted world.
language: English
title: Ashes and Diamonds
titlecomplete: Ashes and Diamonds
genres: Fiction, War, Politics, Polish Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Poland, Historical Fiction, 20th Century
ratings_count: 813
places: Poland
publisher: Northwestern University Press