Fado - (Polish Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by Andrzej Stasiuk (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Inspired by Jack Kerouac s On the Road, Andrzej Stasiuk, Poland s most accomplished living prose writer, takes readers into the forgotten Europe.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Inspired by Jack Kerouac s On the Road, Andrzej Stasiuk, Poland s most accomplished living prose writer, takes readers into the forgotten Europe.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[A] delicate, deeply-shadowed book of travels through the culturally blurred hinterlands of the former Eastern Bloc. --J.W. McCormack<br><br>[H]e writes a slow, meditative prose that allows him to perceive the ancient rhythms under this constant change. --Daniel Trilling<br><br>[T]he book was so good it filled me with a strong desire to spend more time in the car parks of obscure provincial Polish towns. But it also filled me with an unexpected, new yearning. --Daniel Kalder<br><br>Fado is a must read for all. --Agnieszka Macoch<br><br>He gives us a true dispatch from Eastern Europe with the heart of a bohemian. --Monica Carter<br><br>Stasiuk is . . . an accomplished stylist with an eye for the telling detail that brings characters and situations to life. . . . I caught a flavor of Hamsun, Sartre, Genet and Kafka in Stasiuk s scalpel-like but evocative writing. --Irvine Welsh<br><br>Stasiuk writes eloquently and with penetrating insight about the effect of the collapse of communism on the people of Central and Eastern Europe, particularly the young... --Carmelo Militano<br><br>Fado is a must read for all.--Agnieszka Macoch<br><br>Readers find this author s rough-and-ready tales of the Wild East so convincing that in the German-speaking countries he is now the best-known among contemporary Polish writers.<br><br>Starred Review. Stasiuk s style of travel writing takes readers, in beautifully descriptive prose, to far and often remote corners of Eastern Europe. He is an alluring writer; the opening line of Highway, the first essay in the collection Best of all is night in a foreign country is a siren song guaranteeing the book will not be put down until the last page has been read.<br>
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