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Cold Sea Stories
Cold Sea Stories | Pawe? Huelle, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
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A student pedals an old Ukrainian bicycle between striking factories delivering bulletins in the tumultuous first days of the Polish Solidarity movement; a shepherd watches, unseen, as a strange figure disembarks from a pirate ship to bury a chest on the beach; a prisoner in a Berber dungeon recounts his lifes storythe failed pursuit of the worlds very first languageby scrawling in the sand on his cell floor. The characters in this mesmerizing short story collection find themselves, willingly or not, at the heart of epic narratives. Against such backdrops as the Baltic coast, Kashubian folklore, Chinese mysticism, and the 9/11 attacks, this book centers around the vision of the refugee: be it the Chechen woman carrying her newborn child across the Polish border, the survivor of the Gulag reappearing on his friends doorstep, or the stranger who befriends the sole resident of a ghostly Mennonite village in the final days of World War II. Offering insight into Polish and Jewish sociopolitical history, this collection is written in the style and traditions of Polish literature.
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rockpools
Cold Sea Stories | Pawe? Huelle, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
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#Cold sea stories have very much been my thing over the last couple of months; I think they're probably my thing in general. These were set around the sea and coastlines of the Baltic, the North Sea, the North Atlantic and (in parts) the Arctic.

#DecDays @Cinfhen

Cinfhen Yay!!! (edited) 7y
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rockpools
Cold Sea Stories | Pawe? Huelle, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
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My #NovemberWrapUp. #ro17

What aren't included are the *huge* number of books I started this month, then quietly reshelved as it just wasn't the right time. Still, I really did enjoy all of these, found some wonderful new-to-me authors and actually finished Sagas.

Next month I'll be dealing with those pesky end-of-challenge reads!

Cathythoughts Well done 👏👏👏 7y
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rockpools
Cold Sea Stories | Pawe? Huelle, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
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Short stories from a Polish author- beautiful and intriguing, set mainly on the Baltic Sea coast. I loved it! Very atmospheric, stories of strangers and refugees; dreams, ghosts, myths, history and the present all overlap. I've come away wanting to know more about so many things, and will search out more by Huelle.

This was my November #EuropeByBook for #Poland. I'm reading books in #translation from round Europe.

Lcsmcat Sounds like my kind of read! Thanks for introducing me to a new author. 7y
rockpools @Lcsmcat 😊I hope you enjoy it as much as I have. It sounds like he has quite a few books available in English, so I'm looking forward to reading more. 7y
Tamra Stacked! 7y
shawnmooney Ooh sounds great! Stacked! 7y
JazzFeathers This soundd so interesting 😊 7y
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rockpools
Cold Sea Stories | Pawe? Huelle, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
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I'm loving everything about these short stories so far. Atmospheric and strange, set on Poland's Baltic Sea coast.

TrishB Lovely photo 👍 7y
rockpools @TrishB Thank you. Didn't just borrow it because it matches - well - everything... Honest! 7y
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Cold Sea Stories | Pawe? Huelle, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
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By the time she emerged onto the shore, the sun was quite high in the sky. In a few minutes, her long loose hair was dry. With her gaze fixed still on the horizon, she sat still on the sand. Far away, above the mouth of the river, cormorants were circling. The summer was beginning. But just as last year, not a single boat had sailed out to sea. Nor had a single plough appeared that spring on the polder between the canals. & yet she felt safe here.

rockpools Pic: IMG_2070 by startowa13 https://flic.kr/p/ZhhD8E 7y
Cathythoughts OMG there‘s a sky 😱❤️ 7y
rockpools @Cathythoughts Isn't it just 💙? And big! How's your place? Is everything back to normal after That Weather the other week? 7y
Cathythoughts @RachelO oh yes, All normal again. Your very good to ask 👍 7y
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rockpools
Cold Sea Stories | Pawe? Huelle, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
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Today is being a %*!•

But my library haul was pretty spectacular...

batsy Those all look so interesting. I look forward to your reviews 😀 7y
rockpools @batsy Thank you- I hadn't heard of any of them before, so🤞Was only popping in to return a book, but you know how it is... 7y
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