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Polish Emigres Have Written Poignantly about the pain of exile in letters, diaries, and essays; others, more recently, have recreated Polish-American communities in works of fiction. But it is Danuta Mostwin's fiction, until now unavailable in English translation, that bridges the divide between Poland and America, exile and emigration. Mostwin and her husband survived the ravages of World War II, traveled to Britain, and then emigrated to the United States. Mostwin devoted her scholarly career to the study of immigrants trapped between cultural worlds. Winner of international awards for her fiction, Danuta Mostwin here offers two novellas, translated by the late Marta Erdman, which are the first of her works published in English in the United States. Deeply melancholic and moving in its unsentimental depiction of ordinary people trying to make sense of their uprooted lives, Testaments presents two powerful vignettes of life in immigrant America, The Last Will of Blaise Twardowski and Jocasta. This timely publication provides an introduction to Mostwin's work that will ensure that she is recognized as the creator of one of the most nuanced and deeply moving pictures of emigration and exile in Polish-American literature.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Testaments
• Subtitle: Two Novellas of Emigration and Exile
• Author: Danuta Mostwin
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 121
• EAN: 9780821416075
• ISBN: 0821416073
• ID: 04935438
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Weight: 349 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. January 2005

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