Where to Buy the Book 'Quarks, Elephants & Pierogi: Poland in 100 Words'
‘Quarks, Elephants & Pierogi: Poland in 100 Words’ is now available from multiple online locations.
A cascade of 'Quarks, Elephants & Pierogi: Poland in 100 Words' books, photo: Culture.pl The official distributor in the USA is the Booksellers Consortium, through whom many local retailers are making the book available in their own stores.
Buy it directly from them via Bookshop.org.
Other online retailers:
Thanks to support from KGHM Polska Miedź SA, the fourth and fifth print and run has become available more widely across the US and UK since January 2021!
Our Most Beautiful Books of 2018 Awards-winning book can also be found in the giftshops of Zachęta National Gallery, National Museum in Warsaw, POLIN Museum of the History of the Polish Jews, and the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, the National Museum in Kraków and MOCAK in Kraków, and at the SUPERSALON, DESA Unicum and Bęc Zmiana bookshops in Warsaw. It is also available in Polish airports and central train stations in Gdańsk, Katowice, Kraków, Lublin, Łódź, Olsztyn, Poznań, Szczecin, Warsaw and Wrocław.
The book 素粒子、象とピエロギと−101語のポーランド (Quarks, Elephants & Pierogi: Poland in 101 Words), photo: promo materials / Grażyna Makara Japanese edition
As of early 2022, there is now a Japanese version of the book available! Translated by Yasuko Shibata and Art Translators Collective, this special new edition even has an extra chapter just for Japanese readers, hence the title is in fact Quarks, Elephants & Pierogi: Poland in 101 Words, or rather 素粒子、象とピエロギと−101語のポーランド. And of course it still has all the great design and art from Magda Burdzyńska that garnered fans and accolades for the original.
You can find it at the Bęc Zmiana bookstore in Warsaw, and at the museum shop of the Manggha Centre in Kraków. It can be bought online from the Bęc Zmiana website. It will be available to buy in Japan itself very soon.
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A stunning combination of content and design... I enjoyed every bit of it, and wish there were more like this, on other languages.
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David Crystal, author and world-leading authority on the English language
The innovative and striking Quarks, Elephants & Pierogi: Poland in 100 Words by Mikołaj Gliński, Matthew Davies and Adam Żuławski is the first book created by Culture.pl’s editorial team. It explores Polish culture and history by way of its language, all the while bursting with colour thanks to the illustrations and design by Magdalena Burdzyńska.
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With pithy and humorous descriptions, a large area of Polish reality is surveyed, including cuisine, countryside, family, religion, travel and much besides... A must read for the well-heeled and down-to-earth types, urbanites and artists, bureaucrats and politicians, travelers and vagabonds, as well as historians and curiosity-seekers.
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Marek Żebrowski, Director of the Polish Music Centre at USC Thornton in Los Angeles
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For people merely interested in Poland or completely in love with it, this is from the ‘must have and read’ shelf. The descriptions of the words, the fun had with them (in both languages — English and Polish), as well as the wonderful illustrations really do what was intended — they promote us Poles with thought.
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Michał Nogaś, literary critic
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Finally, keep an eye out for our exhibitions based on the book – so far we've been to Tokyo, London, Legnica, Basel and Dubai for EXPO 2020. You can see a clip of what the experience was like at EXPO below:
Thanks to support from KGHM Polska Miedź SA, the fourth and fifth print and run has become available more widely across the US and UK since January 2021!
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Generously supported by KGHM Polska Miedź S.A.
