salki – Three Percent

Wojciech Nowicki Tour!

Chad Post — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 14:00:00 +0000

This evening, at Volumes Bookcafe in Chicago, Wojciech Nowicki’s U.S. tour for kicks off. A four-city tour spanning the next ten days, this is your one opportunity in 2017 to meet the author of the book about which Andrzej Stasiuk said, “Your skin will crawl with pleasure from reading.”

Tuesday, October 3rd, 7pm

Volumes Bookcafe
1474 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622

Thursday, October 5th, 7:30pm

Kosciuszko Foundation
2025 O St. NW
Washington, DC 20036

Tuesday, October 10th, 7:30pm

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Sloan Auditorium
Goergen Hall
Rochester, NY 14627

Wednesday, October 11th, 7pm

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138 West Broadway
New York, NY 10013

And here’s a bit more info about the book itself:

Lying in bed in Gotland after a writer’s conference, thinking about his compulsive desire to travel—and the uncomfortable tensions this desire creates—the narrator of Salki starts recounting tragic stories of his family’s past, detailing their lives, struggles, and fears in twentieth-century Eastern Europe. In these pieces, he investigates various “salkis”—attic rooms where memories and memorabilia are stored—real and metaphorical, investigating old documents to better understand the violence of recent times.

Winner of the prestigious Gdynia Literary Award for Essay, Salki is in the tradition of the works of W. G. Sebald and Ryszard Kapuściński, utilizing techniques of Polish reportage in creating a landscape of memory that is moving and historically powerful.

Win a Copy of "Salki" by Wojiech Nowicki from GoodReads!

Chad Post — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 14:00:00 +0000

As you can see below, we’re giving away 15 copies of Nowicki’s via GoodReads. Translated by Ģ��ý graduate Jan Pytalksi, Nowicki’s book has been praised by the likes of such literary luminaries as Andrzej Stasiuk, who said, “It all blends here unexpectedly: that past and memory with the present and space. . . . At times, your skin will crawl with pleasure from reading.”

Here’s our description:

Lying in bed in Gotland after a writer’s conference, thinking about his compulsive desire to travel—and the uncomfortable tensions this desire creates—the narrator of Salki starts recounting tragic stories of his family’s past, detailing their lives, struggles, and fears in twentieth-century Eastern Europe. In these pieces, he investigates various “salkis”—attic rooms where memories and memorabilia are stored—real and metaphorical, investigating old documents to better understand the violence of recent times.

Winner of the prestigious Gdynia Literary Award for Essay, Salki is in the tradition of the works of W. G. Sebald and Ryszard Kapuściński, utilizing techniques of Polish reportage in creating a landscape of memory that is moving and historically powerful.

If you’re interested in reading a sample, just Otherwise, if you’re a GoodReads user, you can enter the contest simply and quickly by clicking on the button below. (Although one warning: this is restricted to U.S. residents only. International shipping costs are a beast.)

Book Giveaway

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Giveaway ends April 30, 2017.

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