Books translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones: 10
Dr. Josef’s Little Beauty (2024)
Inhuman Land: Searching for the Truth in Soviet Russia, 1941-1942 (2018)
Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead (2018)
The House with the Stained-Glass Window (2017)
The acclaimed story of a young girl's awakening - set in the the evocative, beautiful Ukrainian/Polish city of Lviv. In 1989, Marianna, the beautiful star soprano at the Lviv opera, is shot dead in the street as she leads the Ukrainian citizens in their protest against Soviet power. Only eleven years old at the time, her daughter tells the story of their family before and after that critical moment - including, ten years later, her own passionate affair with an older, married man. Literary Award Nike 2016.
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Rage, by the highly-rated Zygmunt Miłoszewski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, was published in the original Polish as Gniew in 2014. The third in a loose trilogy of crime procedurals featuring State Prosecutor Teodor Szacki, Rage follows Entanglement/Uwikłanie (2010/2007) and A Grain of Truth/Ziarno Prawdy (2012/2011) in examining aspects of contemporary Polish society - respectively Poland's Communist past and Polish-Jewish relations. Both earlier novels were made info feature films, A Grain of Truth more successfully, in an excellent adaptation with screenplay by Miłoszewski, directed by Borys Lankosz and starring Robert Wieckiewicz.
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