This book is a sequel to Insatiable Things, a novel about the maturing of a youth in the months preceding the outbreak of World War II and the first years of the war when his family was exiled to Kazakhstan. The Miracle at Esfahan is an equally fascinating and expressive novel...
Andrzej Czcibor-Piotrowski's new book is a sequel to his
Rzeczy nienasycone / Insatiable Things, a novel about the maturing of a youth in the months preceding the outbreak of World War II and the first years of the war when his family was exiled to Kazakhstan.
Cud w Esfahanie / The Miracle at Esfahan is an equally fascinating and expressive novel.
The eleven-year-old Andrzej leaves Kazakhstan to begin his journey of war banishment. In the company of other orphans he wanders around vast and unfamiliar, but enchanting lands. His route leads him to Alma Ata, Samarkand, Tashkent, and Esfahan, a magical city where miracles may happen at any moment. After a thousand and one nights he reaches Egypt and finally remote Scotland. The story of his exile is a lyrical narrative of his erotic initiation and the awakening of his youthful affection. Love and sensuality shelter the young boy, so cruelly afflicted by history, from the nightmare of the ongoing war and endow his tragic memories with a poetic and mythical dimension. In the boy's memory, events, places and people merge into a fascinating fairy-tale while evil mingles with a passionate desire for life.
Andrzej Czcibor-Piotrowski (b. 1931) is a Czech Studies expert, and translator of Czech, Slovakian and English literature. The first part of his sequence about a childhood spent in exile, Insatiable Things, is to be published in French translation.
- Andrzej Czcibor-Piotrowski
The Miracle at Esfahan / Cud w Esfahanie
WAB, Warsaw 2001
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125 x 195, 288 pages, hardcover
ISBN 83-88221-73-6