The Issa Valley / Czeslaw Milosz ; translated from the Polish by Louis Iribarne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miłosz, Czesław.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Dolina Issy. English

Language:

English

Polish

Subjects (All):

Lithuania--Fiction.

Lithuania.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

288 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, [1981]

Summary:

Thomas, the child-protagonist of The Issa Valley, is subject to both the contradictons of nature in this severe northern setting and the sometimes enchanting, sometimes brutal timbre of village life. There are deep pine and spruce forests, the grouse and the deer, and the hunter's gun. There is Magdalena, the beautiful mistress of the village priest, whose suicide unleashes her ghost to haunt the parish. There are also the loving grandparents with whom Thomas lives, who provide a balance to the not-quite-Dostoevskian devils that visit the villagers. In the end, Thomas is severed from his childhood and the Issa river, and leaves prepared for adventures beyond his valley. Poetic and richly imagined, The Issa Valley is a masterful work of fiction from one of our greatest living poets. --Publisher.

Notes:

Translation of: Dolina Issy.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is eighth printing, 2000 of 1982 paperback.

Other Format:

Online version: Miłosz, Czesław. Dolina Issy. English. Issa Valley.

ISBN:

0374177988

9780374177980

0374516952

9780374516956

OCLC:

7273212