A brilliant and ground-breaking collection of travel narratives from Central and Eastern Europe.
Born in Warsaw in 1960, Andrzej Stasiuk has risen to become one of the most important and interesting writers at work in Eastern Europe today. Author of over a dozen books and winner of many prizes, he came to writing in an unusual way: in the early 1980s, he deserted the army and spent a year and a half in prison for it. Afterwards he wrote a collection of short stories, The Walls of Hebron, about his experience, which became a huge success. He and his wife, Monika Sznajderman, run a small publishing house in Czarne.
Born in Warsaw in 1960, Andrzej Stasiuk has risen to become one of the most important and interesting writers at work in Eastern Europe today. Author of over a dozen books and winner of many prizes, he came to writing in an unusual way- in the early 1980s, he deserted the army and spent a year and a half in prison for it. Afterwards he wrote a collection of short stories, The Walls of Hebron, about his experience, which became a huge success. He and his wife, Monika Sznajderman, run a small publishing house in Czarne.
Stasiuk is one of Poland's best-known contemporary authors and On
the Road to Babadag is a welcome addition to his growing
English-language corpus....Unfailingly stimulating and ably
translated by Michael Kandel
*Times Literary Supplement*
Stasiuk's journeys are vivid poetry... What formally also underpins
Stasiuk's travels, and rather beautifully embodies his resistance
to the future, is how his prose communicates the working of memory,
mirroring its inconsequentiality. His accounts are fragmented,
shuffled, continued later or not. Time breaks down as it is past;
in his mind events cover space and time in an even, translucent
layer
*Prospect*
Now English readers can enjoy the rewards of Stasiuk's entrancing
attempt to stand in the way of progress. It's an exceptional writer
who can rise to such an impossible challenge
*Independent*
A eulogy for the old Europe, the Europe both in and out of time,
the Europe now lost in the folds of the map, On the Road to Babadag
is valuable reading for UK readers. If we can't read our way around
Europe, how will we ever find our place, our identity, within
it?
*Guardian*
At once powerful, punkish, angry, and disorientating in its quest
to probe into Europe's dirty laundry
*Scotland on Sunday*
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