The painted bird / Jerzy Kosinski ; with an introduction by the author.

Second edition.

New York : Grove Press ; [Emeryville, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 1995.

©1965

xxvi, 234 pages ; 21 cm

BEIN Kosinski 436: Paperbound. From the Katherina von Fraunhofer-Kosinski Collection of Jerzy Kosinski.

""Grove Press paperback edition"--Title page verso.

Originally published in 1965, The Painted Bird established Jerzy Kosinski as a major literary figure. Kosinski's story follows a dark-haired, olive-skinned boy, abandoned by his parents during World War II, as he wanders alone from one village to another, sometimes hounded and tortured, only rarely sheltered and cared for. Through the juxtaposition of adolescence and the most brutal of adult experiences, Kosinski sums up a Bosch-like world of harrowing excess where senseless violence and untempered hatred are the norm. Through sparse prose and vivid imagery, Kosinski's novel is a story of mythic proportion, even more relevant to today's society than it was upon its original publication. -- from http://www.amazon.com (Jan. 12, 2016).

English

August 28, 2018

Young Adult.