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A Long Long Time Ago and Essentially True
by Pasulka, Brigid
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/good +
- ISBN 10
- 0547055072
- ISBN 13
- 9780547055077
- Seller
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Meadows of Dan, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Good/good +. 354 pages. A novel set in Poland on the eve of World War II, following young lovers and then the future as their granddaughter tries to discover her place in the world. Blue boards with gilt titles on spine. Stains on cover, gilt bright, light edge wear, minor bumping of corners and spine ends, stains along edges of end papers and first few pages, interior pages otherwise bright, binding tight. Illustrated blue dust jacket with white and yellow titles on front cover and spine is stained at bottom, shows light edge wear, light creases at corners, not price clipped.
Measures 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches.
Measures 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches.
Synopsis
On the eve of World War II, in a place called Half-Village, a young man nicknamed the Pigeon falls in love with a girl fabled for her angelic looks. To court Anielica Hetmanská he offers up his "golden hands" to transform her family’s modest hut into a beautiful home, thereby building his way into her heart. Then war arrives to cut short their courtship, delay their marriage, and wreak havoc in all their lives, even sending the young lovers far from home to the promise of a new life in Kraków. Nearly fifty years later, their granddaughter, Beata, repeats their postwar journey, seeking a new life in the fairy-tale city of her grandmother’s stories. But when she arrives in Kraków, instead of the whispered prosperity of the New Poland, she discovers a city caught between its future and its past, and full of frustrated youths. Taken in by her toughtalking cousin Irena and Irena’s glamorous daughter Magda, Beata struggles to find her own place in 1990s Kraków and in the constellation of Irena and Magda’s fierce love. But unexpected events-- tragedies and miracles-- can change lives and open eyes. And Beata may just find a new way of seeing her family's and her country's history-- as well as a vision for her own role in the New Poland. Whimsical, wise, beautiful, magical, and sometimes even heartbreaking, A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True weaves together two remarkable stories, reimagining half a century of Polish history through the legacy of one unforgettable love affair.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Scraps of American History
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00705
- Title
- A Long Long Time Ago and Essentially True
- Author
- Pasulka, Brigid
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0547055072
- ISBN 13
- 9780547055077
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- fiction, World War II, Poland, Krakow, families
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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