The Bronski House: A Journey Back - Hardcover

Marsden, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 155970392X ISBN 13: 9781559703925

Publisher: Arcade Pub, 1997

Synopsis

More than fifty years after fleeing the Russians and Nazis, poet Zofia Ilinska returns to the tiny Eastern European village of her birth to find her old home and to rediscover her childhood and the history of her family.

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Review:

‘An odd but splendidly imagined fish, part novel, part reverie. Marsden has a dazzling gift for poetic evocation – and for reminding us that Britain is not an island.’
John Fowles, Spectator

‘An extraordinary, multi-faceted narrative. From diaries and memories it recreates the true story of two polish women – mother and daughter – amid the destruction of a whole culture’
Colin Thubron, Daily Telegraph

‘He is an exquisite writer, with the elegant style, light historical touch and detachment of a storyteller ... incandescent ... the best travel writing I have read on Poland.’ Simon Sebag Montefiore, Sunday Times

‘A tragic, uplifting elegy to a remarkable family. Philip Marsden's work will invigorate travel literature by helping to propel it over the boundary into unexplored territory.’
Rory Maclean, Times Literary Supplement

From the Back Cover:

In 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 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. Philip Marsden has produced a book which has the swept and passion of an epic novel, yet retains the hard edged realism of a brilliant contemporary travel book.

"An old but splendidly imagined fish, part novel, part reverie. Marsden has a dazzling gift for poetic evocation – and for reminding us that Britain is not an island."
JOHN FOWLES, 'Spectator'

"An extraordinary, multi-faceted narrative. From diaries and memories it recreates the true story of two polish women – mother and daughter – amid the destruction of a whole culture"
COLIN THUBRON, 'Daily Telegraph'

"He is an exquisite writer, with the elegant style, light historical touch and detachment of a storyteller...incandescent...the best travel writing I have read on Poland."
SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE, 'Sunday Times'

"A tragic, uplifting elegy to a remarkable family. Philip Marsden's work will invigorate travel literature by helping to propel it over the boundary into unexplored territory."
RORY MACLEAN,'Times Literary Supplement'

About this edition

• Publisher: Arcade Pub
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 155970392X
• ISBN 13: 9781559703925
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 246