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Author:
Karpowicz, Ignacy, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016044513
Title:
Gestures / Ignacy Karpowicz ; translated from the Polish by Maya Zakrzewska-Pim.
Edition:
First Dalkey Archive edition.
Publisher:
Dalkey Archive Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
218 pages ; 22 cm.
Subject:
Mothers and sons--Fiction.
Terminally ill parents--Fiction.
Children of sick parents--Fiction.
Children of sick parents.
Mothers and sons.
Terminally ill parents.
Fiction.
Fiction.
Other Authors:
Zakrzewska-Pim, Maya, translator. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016044512
Other Titles:
Gesty. English
Notes:
"Originally published in Polish as Gesty by Wydawnictwo Literackie in 2008."--ECIP galley.
Summary:
"A forty-year-old man, burying himself in work and avoiding close emotional bonds with people, pays a visit to his mother in the country and is forced to extend it upon discovering her illness. While there, he reevaluates past familial and romantic relationships and finally attempts to build new ones. Gestures is "a psychologically precise and moving autopsy of a 'man in the wake of ordeals.'"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Polish literature series
ISBN:
1628971630
9781628971637
OCLC:
(OCoLC)957056850
LCCN:
2016031191
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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