In Nazi-occupied Warsaw of 1943, Irma Seidenman, a young Jewish widow passes as the wife of a Polish officer, until an informer spots her and drags her off to the Gestapo to await her fate

The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman

Literature & Fiction

SZCZYPIORSKI, ANDRZEJ

Genre Fiction

Grove Weidenfeld

In Nazi-occupied Warsaw of 1943, Irma Seidenman, a young Jewish widow passes as the wife of a Polish officer, until an informer spots her and drags her off to the Gestapo to await her fate

Vintage

The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman (English and Polish Edition)

Contemporary

Grove Pr

In 1461, Jan enthusiastically participates in the persecution of the Jews and witches blamed for an outbreak of plague and famine, but the burgeoning violence threatens Jan himself as he faces choices that have allegorical links to contemporary issues

A Mass for Arras

Summoned to Geneva to participate in an oral-history project about the collapse of Eastern European communism, a Warsaw sociologist resolves to tell his story through a gallery of portraits of the many women he has loved.

Self-Portrait With Woman

A noted Polish author presents a coming-of-age novel about the sheltered son of a prominent Polish family whose awakening into manhood is overshadowed by the sense of doom engulfing his country on the eve of World War II.

The Shadow Catcher: A Novel

At the core of this novel is the true fifteenth-century tragedy of, first, plague and hunger and, later, the brutal persecution of Jews and witches in the small French town of Arras. A Mass for Arras explores the personal and political consequences of fear, fanaticism, and fascism in the story of Jan, a young member of the intelligentsia. Arrogantly pious and full of revolutionary zeal, Jan wholeheartedly participates in the torments inflicted on the "outsiders" in the name of moral and political righteousness. Yet when faced with escalating violence and, ultimately, his own downfall, he must choose between sincere commitment to the isolated village that adopted him and horror at a society gone mad. A Mass for Arras addresses themes of freedom and responsibility, individualism and conformity, and memory and loss. It is a moving account of a young man's coming-of-age in a time of disease and death, a profound political allegory of life in an emergent totalitarian state, a chilling indictment of government-sponsored repression and societal complicity, and a cautionary tale about the tendency of history to repeat itself, whether in fifteenth-century France, postwar Poland, or somewhere still closer to our own time and place.

A Mass for Arras (Andrze Szczypiorski)

Literary

GROVE PRESS

Summoned to Geneva to participate in an oral history project about the collapse of Eastern European communism, a Warsaw sociologist resolves to tell his story through a gallery of portraits of the many women he has loved

Self-Portrait with Woman: A Novel (Andrze Szczypiorski)

In the Nazi-occupied Warsaw of 1943, Irma Seidenman, a young Jewish widow, possesses two attributes that can spell the difference between life and death: she has blue eyes and blond hair. With these, and a set of false papers, she has slipped out of the ghetto, passing as the wife of a Polish officer, until one day an informer spots her on the street and drags her off to the Gestapo. At times a dark lament, at others a sly and sardonic thriller, The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman is the story of the thirty-six hours that follow Irma's arrest and the events that lead to her dramatic rescue as the last of Warsaw's Jews are about to meet their deaths in the burning ghetto.

Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman, The: A Novel (Andrze Szczypiorski)

Andrzej Szczypiorski is one of the major figures in world literature. In The Shadow Catcher, he tells the story of a boy who comes of age as the world around him begins to fall apart. At fifteen, Krzys is the adored and sheltered son of a wealthy Polish family; it is the moment just before World War II, which will forever change their lives, but Krzys is only partly aware of what is happening around him. He lives in a world shrouded in silent cries and fleeting whispers -- here his awakening into manhood is accompanied by a sense of imminent doom. The Shadow Catcher is a richly evocative, heartbreaking novel about the loss of innocence and the vanishing of the old world.

The Shadow Catcher: A Novel (Andrze Szczypiorski)

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The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman

The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman

The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman (English and Polish Edition)

A Mass for Arras

Self-Portrait With Woman

The Shadow Catcher: A Novel

A Mass for Arras (Andrze Szczypiorski)

Self-Portrait with Woman: A Novel (Andrze Szczypiorski)

Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman, The: A Novel (Andrze Szczypiorski)

The Shadow Catcher: A Novel (Andrze Szczypiorski)