by PhilipMarsden (Author)
In the summer of 1992, accompanied by Philip Marsden, the exiled poet Zofia Hinska stepped into the Belorussian village where she had spent her childhood. The Bronski House is in part the remarkable story of what she found. It is also the story of her mother, Helena Bronska -- of her coming of age during the Russian revolution, her dramatic escapes from Bolsheviks, Germans and partisans, of her love and loss in a now vanished world. It brilliantly reconstructs a world which vanished in 1939 when Soviet tanks rolled into eastern Poland.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New
Publisher: Flamingo
Published: 02 Sep 1996
ISBN 10: 000638692X
ISBN 13: 9780006386926
Book Overview: * Has the sweep and passion of an epic novel, yet retains the hard-edged realism of a brilliant contemporary travel book. * A wonderfully multi-faceted narrative, drawing on diaries and memories -- The Bronski House reinvigorates travel literature