Summary
On the eve of World War II in Half-Village, a young man nicknamed the Pigeon courts the beautiful Anielica Hetmanská by offering up his "golden hands" to renovate her family's hut. But the war's arrival delays their marriage and wreaks havoc in all their lives. After the war, the Pigeon and Anielic... Full description
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On the eve of World War II in Half-Village, a young man nicknamed the Pigeon courts the beautiful Anielica Hetmanská by offering up his "golden hands" to renovate her family's hut. But the war's arrival delays their marriage and wreaks havoc in all their lives. After the war, the Pigeon and Anielica find themselves in Kraków for a few years before tragedy sends Anielica home. Nearly fifty years later, their granddaughter, Beata, repeats their journey, seeking a new life in the fairy-tale city of her grandmother's stories. But when she arrives in Kraków, instead of the whispered prosperity of the New Poland, she discovers a city caught between its future and its past, and full of frustrated youths... When two unexpected events occur, one tragic and the other a kind of miracle, Beata is given a fresh glimpse of her family's and her country's history -- and a vision of her own role in the New Poland. |
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Physical Description: |
v, 354 p. ; 24 cm. |
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9780547055077 0547055072 |
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