For years they dreamed of going back to the Bronski house, which over time came to stand for everything they had lost.
The Bronski House
This novel recreates the story of two Polish women, mother and daughter, the Russian revolution, and their escape from the Bolsheviks, Germans and partisans in an era that saw the destruction of an entire culture.
Framing the Polish Home
... The Bronski House: A Journey Back. New York: Arcade Publishing. Sikorski, Radek. 1997. The Polish House: The Intimate History of Poland. New York: Simon and Schuster. Traba, Robert. 1997. “Wysiedlenia Niemców z Polski—refleksje na ...
When the World Turned Upside-Down
... The Bronski House (Marsden 1995) which is an account of a woman's journey back to Poland, from which she had to flee when the Germans invaded the country. Like The Bronski House, The Spirit Wrestlers shows strong narrative qualities ...
Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia
... The Bronski House: A Journey Back. New York: Arcade, 1998. “The late poet Zofia Ilinska, née Bronski, fled Poland in September 1939 at the start of World War II; she was 17. Along with her mother, Zofia settled on the English coast in ...
The Rough Guide to Poland
... The Bronski House: A Return to the Borderlands. Sensitively written account of the author's journey to the Polish–Belarusian borderlands in the company of Zofia Ilińska, an aristocratic former resident returning for the first time in ...
A Queer History of the United States
Winner of the Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction The first comprehensive history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender America, from pre-1492 to the present "Readable, radical, and smart—a must read."—Alison Bechdel, author of Fun ...
Church for the Fatherless
... homes with either no father or an inept father. Song of Hope Church conducted Bible clubs, ran an extensive literacy ... the Bronski house and get the firsthand experience of what it would be like if dad were home. In addition, they took ...
Scotland, the UK and Brexit
... The Bronski House (Marsden, 1995). He traces the story of a Polish émigré who fled to Britain in the Second World War. Her family home was on territory contested by four nations: Lithuania, Belorussia, Russia and Poland. The house was ...
Hospital Time
Amy Hoffman. Walta's Birthday I come home from Bronski's house with gifts : a home - baked pear torte missing one slice , a book I've been wanting to read , and a form letter he's written that I can copy and send to ten of my friends urg ...
Management Development in Poland
... The Bronski House, London: Flamingo. Sikorski, R. (1997), The Polish House: An Intimate History of Poland, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Polish. Language. General guides to the language De Bray, R.G.A. (1980), Polish', Guide to the ...
