{"product_id":"warsaw-tales-9780192855565","title":"Warsaw Tales","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWarsaw Tales is an anthology of short stories and non-fiction set in the Polish capital. Beginning in 1911 with Boleslaw Prus'' Apparitions, the collected stories provide a chronological account of the city''s tumultuous and dramatic history. Each story captures a phase of Warsaw''s past, through the interwar period as a Polish republic, the Second World War and the city''s Nazi occupation, the post-war city in ruins and its rebuilding under the communist regime, and its new status as the capital of an independent Poland in 1989. With each story set in a specific part of the city, the collection becomes a guidebook to Warsaw''s temporal, spatial, and psychological geography.This collection features a wide variety of authors including Boleslaw Prus, Maria Kuncewiczowa, Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, Ludwik Hering, Zofia Petersowa, Marek Hlasko, Kazimierz Orlos, Hanna Krall, Antoni Libera, Zbigniew Mentzel, Olga Tokarczuk, and Krzysztof Varga.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49881529319767,"sku":"9780192855565","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780192855565.jpg?v=1737826549","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/warsaw-tales-9780192855565","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}