The Bronski House

Download or read book The Bronski House written by Philip Marsden and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939, poet Zofia Ilinska (nee Bronski) and her mother, Helena Bronska, fled to England. For years they dreamed of going back to the Bronski house, which over time came to stand for everything they had lost. It was more than a half a century later that Ilinska returned to the village of her birth, asking Marsden to accompany her and entrusting to him Helena's diaries and letters. Best described as a non-fiction novel, the result is not only an account of the poet's quest for her origins but a portrait of the parallel lives of mother and daughter: coming of age, dramatic escapes, and love and loss. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR