Description
Kamil, a Warsaw sociologist, is summoned to Geneva to participate in an oral history project about the collapse of Eastern European communism and resolves to tell his own story through a gallery of portraits of the many women he has loved. These reminiscences emerge against the broader canvas of circumstances and events that have shaped the past sixty years of Poland's turbulent, tragic history. Soon he finds himself inexorably drawn to his interrogator from the "free" world; the chronicler of his life, the keeper of his secrets, and his heart's last hope for redemptive love. Self-Portrait with Woman is at once a haunting and lyrical portrait of a man, of a country, and of the twilight years of an era.
Author: Andrzej Szczypiorski, Andrzej Szczpiorski
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 02/10/1997
Pages: 258
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.51w x 0.66d
ISBN13: 9780802134882
ISBN10: 0802134882
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General