Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library

El amante Polaco, Elena Poniatowska, Libro 1

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El amante Polaco

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Elena Poniatowska

Biblioteca breve

Publisher Annotation: It is 1743 and while listening attentively to the historical exploits of his family, little Stanislaw travels in the company of his mother through a dazzling winter landscape. Far is his passion for Catherine the Great and the convulsive arrival of the Poniatowski to the throne of Poland. Two centuries later and with only 10 years, Elena looks for the last time the snow falls on Paris. A long trip to Mexico awaits her, the country of Paula Amor, her mother, in which many persecuted by the war that ravages Europe find refuge. This first part of The Polish lover is a fascinating journey through two narrative times and two forces of destiny: that of the European courts of the 18th century and that of Mexico City in full boil, that of the palace intrigues and the literary gatherings of the 1950s, that of forbidden romances and that of a life devoted to writing, as full of intense as painful moments. Elena Poniatowska, winner of the 2013 Cervantes Prize, gives us her most personal novel, where intimate language and emotions are linked to the epic story of a kingdom about to disappear. This peak work in the author's career reaffirms her surprising originality and her unique narrative talent. Elena Poniatowska's most ambitious and personal novel. Biblioteca breve (Seix Barral) series, Mexico, 408pp