{"product_id":"thousand-peaceful-cities","title":"Thousand Peaceful Cities","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThousand Peaceful Cities\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJerzy Pilch\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781934824276\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eOpen Letter Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2010\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e143\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If laughter actually is the best medicine, fortunate readers of this wonderful novel will surely enjoy perfect health for the rest of their days.\"--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA comic gem, Jerzy Pilch's \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Peaceful Cities\u003c\/i\u003e takes place in 1963, in the latter days of the Polish post-Stalinist \"thaw.\" The narrator, Jerzyk (\"little Jerzy\"), is a teenager who is keenly interested in his father, a retired postal administrator, and his father's closest friend, Mr. Traba, a failed Lutheran clergyman, alcoholic, and would-be Polish insurrectionist. One drunken afternoon, Mr. Traba and the narrator's father decide to take charge of their lives and do one final good turn for humanity: travel to distant Warsaw and assassinate the de facto Polish head of state, First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party, Wladyslaw Gomulka--assassinating Mao Tse-tung, after all, would be impractical. And they decide to involve Jerzyk in their scheme...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJerzy Pilch\u003c\/b\u003e is one of Poland's most important contemporary writers and journalists. In addition to his long-running satirical newspaper column, Pilch has published several novels, and has been nominated for Poland's prestigious NIKE Literary Award four times; he finally won the Award in 2001 for \u003ci\u003eThe Mighty Angel\u003c\/i\u003e. His novels have been translated into numerous languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDavid Frick\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Open Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Thousand Peaceful Cities | Jerzy Pilch | Paperback | 9781934824276 | Used: Like New | Fiction 1740028 (temp: 17)","offer_id":48168830075032,"sku":"1740028","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/711ZmwF-3QL.jpg?v=1771978792","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/thousand-peaceful-cities","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}