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Set within the Warsaw ghetto, Bird Streets tells four connecting stories. The novel recaptures vestiges of a culture once abundantly present but now abjectly absent. This “post memory” sparks hidden remnants, echoes, and signs, and clings to underground whisperings. While not a Holocaust memoir, Bird Streets touches all four narrators intrigued by a world not quite lost. This world of generations past continues to speak. The book’s tone is not bleak though. It is wistful and reflective, with irony and gentle humor.
Piotr Paziński is a journalist, philosopher, translator, and novelist of Jewish heritage who lives in Warsaw. He received the European Union Prize for Literature in 2012 for his first novel, The Boarding House.
Ursula Phillips is a British translator of Polish literary and academic works. She most recently received the 2015 Found in Translation Award and the 2017 Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America Waclaw Lednicki Award.
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