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A Treatise on Shelling Beans

By Wieslaw Mysliwski

A Treatise on Shelling Beans Contemporary literature

A Treatise on Shelling Beans

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Our hero and narrator is the aging caretaker of cottages at a summer resort. A mysterious visitor inspires him to share the story of his long life: we witness a happy childhood cut short by the war, his hiding from the Nazis buried in a heap of potatoes, his plodding attempts to play the saxophone, the brutal murder of his family, loves lost but remembered, and footloose travels abroad. Told in the manner of friends and neighbors swapping stories over the mundane task of shelling beans—in the grand oral tradition of Myśliwski’s celebrated Stone Upon Stone—each anecdote, lived experience, and memory accrues cross-stitched layers of meaning. By turns hilarious and poignant, A Treatise on Shelling Beans is an epic recounting of a life that, while universal, is anything but ordinary.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
450
Release Date:
2013-12-03
Publication Date:
2013-12-03
Publisher:
New York Review of Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1935744909
ISBN13:
9781935744900
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
517 g
Height:
151 cm
Width:
190 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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