Pensjonat. English

The boarding house / Piotr Pazinski ; translated from the Polish by Tusia Dabrowska.

First Dalkey Archive edition.

McLean, IL : Dalkey Archive Press, 2018.

©2018

viii, 119 pages ; 22 cm.

In this debut novel by the Polish writer Piotr Pazinski, a young man takes a train to a small town outside of Warsaw to visit a boarding house populated by the last generation of Polish Holocaust survivors. When his grandmother was alive, he had spent a great deal of time at this boarding house, and now he returns, as if to get one last glimpse of the past--to look at old faces and think old thoughts. Pazinski's narrative is at once dreamlike and hard-nosed, and it is structured with the haunting simplicity of a fairy tale. The Boarding House is a meditation on the sad, sometimes terrifying moment when living memory becomes history and the living become the dead.

English

March 12, 2019