Boarding House
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781628972726
Subjects: Fiction, war & military; Fiction, historical, general; Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), fiction; Warsaw (poland), fiction
Description: In this debut novel by the Polish writer Piotr Pazinski, a young man takes a train to a small town outside of Warsaw to visit a boarding house populated by the last generation of Polish Holocaust survivors. When his grandmother was alive, he had spent a great deal of time at this boarding house, and now he returns, as if to get one last glimpse of the past--to look at old faces and think old thoughts. Pazinski's narrative is at once dreamlike and hard-nosed, and it is structured with the haunting simplicity of a fairy tale. The Boarding House is a meditation on the sad, sometimes terrifying moment when living memory becomes history and the living become the dead.