A rich, polyphonic novel from one of the leading voices of contemporary Polish literature, encompassing a halfcentury of history and memoryIn a Polish village, a young man watches an old man trip and fall down a flight of stairs. From this singular event arises a cascade of memories, regrets, and longings the buried sensations of a whole lifetime, condensed and released. We hear of life during occupation, the scarcities of a childhood lived under the sign of warand fragments of a homes sounds and scents (the private speech of mothers and fathers, the treasures of coffee, raisins, almonds, and plums). There are loves unrequited and fulfilled, landscapes of winter and spring, old jobs and old friends, all flowing together.Wieslaw Mysliwskis latest novel is a personal epic written on the smallest scale. Its narrator, a medieval historian in his latter years, lives surrounded by images of the past. From within this wandering mind, Mysliwski has composed his own ode to lost time, a nonlinear, chameleonic meditation on a halfcentury of Polish life as it does not appear in the historical record. Part autobiography, part dreambook, Needles Eye is both a writers farewell to the Poland of his youth and an extended address, like the final lecture prepared by its narrator, on the persistence and necessity of memory.

Binding: Paperback;300 pages; Publisher: Archipelago Books; Classification: FA; Weight: 590 g; Dimensions: 149 x 178 x 29

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