The Stars Can Wait
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Picador
Published: February 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780312421151
Subjects: Literary; Fiction / Literary; Fiction - General; Poland; Silesia, Upper (Poland and Czech Republic); World War, 1939-1945; Fiction
First sentence: On an autumn night 1940, one year into German occupation, in a Polish mining village called Malenkowice within the area known as Upper Silesia, a fifteen-year-old boy named Gracian Sofka sat poised and upright on his bed watching his sleeping brother.