A Treatise on Shelling Beans Mysliwski WieslawPaperback
A Treatise on Shelling Beans Mysliwski WieslawPaperback Our hero and narrator is the aging caretaker of cottages at a summer resort. Told in the manner of friends and neighbors swapping stories over…
Specifikacia A Treatise on Shelling Beans Mysliwski WieslawPaperback
A Treatise on Shelling Beans Mysliwski WieslawPaperback
Our hero and narrator is the aging caretaker of cottages at a summer resort. 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. 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.
By turns hilarious and poignant, A Treatise on Shelling Beans is an epic recounting of a life that, while universal, is anything but