Chasing the King of Hearts

Title: Chasing the King of Hearts
Author: Krall, Hanna
ISBN: 9781558619449
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Published: 2017
Binding: Quality
Language: English
Condition: New
New from the publisher

Fiction 1286582

Publisher Description:

Winner of the 2018 PEN Translation Prize

One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2017

This canonical work of Polish reportage is a terse, unexpected human lesson born of an occupation-era love story. Based on a true story, the raw interplay of history and fictionalization spans the Warsaw Ghetto, the war-torn countryside, and the nightmare of Auschwitz.

This is the book's first US publication.

Hanna Krall was born in 1935 in Poland and survived the Holocaust by hiding in a cupboard. She has received numerous Polish and international awards, such as the Polish PEN Club Prize and the German Wurth Preis for European Literature 2012, and has been translated into seventeen languages.