Beschrijving
Of all the writings that emerged from World War II, few books will surpass Jerzy Kosinski’s semiautobiographical novel The Painted Bird. It tells the story of a dark-haired Polish child who is abandoned by his parents in the midst of the war. Taken for either a Gypsy or a Jew he wanders through the devastated country and the broken towns of Eastern Europe. With nobody to turn to, he leaves to stay alive at any cost and to live by himself and for himself.
The painted bird / Jerzy Kosinski. – Groningen : Wolters-Noordhoff, 2004. –
239 p. ; 21 cm. – (Blackbirds, ISSN 0926-2350 ; 2004)
Oorspr. Engelse uitg.: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
ISBN 90-01-55878-X
ISBN 90-01-55876-3 ((set))
INHOUD
Of all the writings that emerged from World War II, few books will surpass
Jerzy Kosinski’s semiautobiographical novel The Painted Bird. It tells the
story of a dark-haired Polish child who is abandoned by his parents in the
midst of the war. Taken for either a Gypsy or a Jew he wanders through the
devastated country and the broken towns of Eastern Europe. With nobody to
turn to, he leaves to stay alive at any cost and to live by himself and for
himself.
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