- Social life and customs, Fiction, Fiction, general, Pg7179.o37 d6613 2003
"Nowa Ruda is a small town in Silesia, an area that has been a part of Poland, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia in the past. When the narrator moves into the area, she and discovers everyone--and everything--has its own story.
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Prestige, contemplative, grave and earnest.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Olga Tokarczuk
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 293
- Publisher
- n/a, Northwestern University Press, DVA
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English, Chinese, Polish
- ISBN
- 9788308040065
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Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk (ur. 29 stycznia 1962 w Sulechowie) – polska pisarka, eseistka, poetka i autorka scenariuszy, psycholożka, laureatka Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury za rok 2018, laureatka The Man Booker International Prize 2018 za powieść Bieguni oraz dwukrotna laureatka Nagrody Literackiej „Nike” za powieści: *Bieguni* (2008) i *Księgi Jakubowe* (2015). ---------- Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk ([tɔˈkart͡ʂuk]; born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. In 2019, she was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Polish female prose writer for "a na
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