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Gestures / Ignacy Karpowicz ; translated from the Polish by Maya Zakrzewska-Pim.
Van Pelt Library PG7211.A675 G4713 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karpowicz, Ignacy, author.
- Series:
- Polish literature series
- Standardized Title:
- Gesty. English
- Language:
- English
- Polish
- Subjects (All):
- Mothers and sons--Fiction.
- Mothers and sons.
- Children of sick parents.
- Terminally ill parents--Fiction.
- Terminally ill parents.
- Children of sick parents--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 218 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First Dalkey Archive edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Victoria, TX : Dalkey Archive Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- "A forty-year-old man, burying himself in work and avoiding close emotional bonds with people, pays a visit to his mother in the country and is forced to extend it upon discovering her illness. While there, he reevaluates past familial and romantic relationships and finally attempts to build new ones. Gestures is "a psychologically precise and moving autopsy of a 'man in the wake of ordeals.'"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Polish as Gesty by Wydawnictwo Literackie in 2008."--ECIP galley.
- ISBN:
- 9781628971637
- 1628971630
- OCLC:
- 957056850
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