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In 2004 Bromba i filozofia  by Maciej Wojtyszko won the Book of the Year award in Poland as well as the Asahi Reading Promotion Award. The latter is a prize granted by IBBY (The International Board on Books for Young People ). The book has also won the prize in the competition “Bestseller for 2004, children’s division” organized by the Child’s World Foundation.
 
Bromba has been interested in philosophy for a long time. You might say it is her Passion. Those who met her years ago will love to get reacquainted. Yes, there she goes again! And the rest of Nasza Okolica folks, too: Fikander, Malwinka, Psztymucel, Kajetan, Makawity – the best of the best. Is there anything more appealing and fascinating than to ponder upon the deepest problems together with your old friends?
 
About the premises, search for certainty, troubles with the truth, explaining what is what and if so – then what? About being a person and about discourse between two persons. About those who do not feel guilty, about “just so” and “here and now”, about transformation of the animal and about what music is good for, and about many, many more things.
 
Nobody who got acquainted with Bromba years ago is going to be disappointed. Those who meet her and her splendid company of friends for the first time now - no matter whether young or old – and hear what she has to say on those very respectable philosophical issues should be. But that only for not having met her before.
 
Maciej Wojtyszko (born in Warsaw in 1946) theater and movie director, writer, playwright.. He has directed plays by, among others, Thomas Bernhard, Sławomir Mrożek and Witold Gombrowicz. Among his most important work for the stage there are The Bench by Alexander Gelman, Tamara by John Krizanc, Shirley Valentine by Willy Russell, Garderober by Ronald Harwood, Love in Crimea  by Sławomir Mrożek, Candide  by Voltaire, The Pickwick Papers  by Charles Dickens, Quarrels at Chioggia by Carlo Goldoni, Opera Granda (based on a screenplay written together with Aldona Krasucka).
Maciej Wojtyszko has written over ten plays, the best known being Bambuko, Semiramida, Wznowienie, Żelazna konstrukcja, Bułhakow. He has also adapted many texts to the stage, notably Michail Bulgakov’s Morfine, The last Days, Life of Monsieur de Molière, The Master and Margarita, and for the younger audience: Pożarcie królewny Bluetki, Ann of Green Gables, Szatan z siódmej klasy, O czym szumią wierzby, Brzechwa dzieciom and Szelmostwa lisa Witalisa.
Maciej Wojtyszko has written many popular books for children, like Bromba i inni (a series of books for the younger reader), Saga rodu Klaptunów, Tajemnica szyfru Marabuta, Sekret Wróżki, Synteza, Trzynaste piórko Eufemii. He is also the author of the TV sitcom Miodowe Lata.
Go, love (Idź, kochaj) is Tomek Tryzna’s second novel. His first novel Miss Nobody has been translated into 14 languages. It was one of the main Polish bestsellers in 1990-ties. 
The narrator of Go, Love is a teenage boy. When still a chid he inadvertently caused a family tragedy, the fact unknown to others. The boy is tormented by guilt and tries to compensate his parents for the harm he has caused them. However, all his pains lead nowhere. His and his mother’s trip to Warsaw meet the same fate.
On a deeper level Go, Love  is about love, faith and coexistence of good and evil.
 
Tomek Tryzna – born in 1948 at Sowia Góra near Ostroszowice. Subsequently the family moved to Świdnica where Tomek began his school Odyssey. He endlessly moved from school to school before finally graduating. Because of his bad sight he was spared both the military service and university studies. Armed in photo camera instead of a carbine he decided to tell stories. In 1972 he stopped for a while at Społeczny Ośrodkek Kultury Filmowej in Opole. There he wrote many screenplays like Dziewczyna na moście, Złodziej, Panny, Sześć milionów sekund, Chłopiec, Murmurando, Książę, Leluje, Sadzawka Syloe, Świadek znikąd, Ajlawju Szwarceneger, Opowieść Harleya, Książę Ciemności, Haddsa. He has directed several plays based on his own screenplays: Trrr - nakręcane obrazki, Kaskaderskie opowieści, Czy można się przysiąść (with Stanisławem Tymem in the lading role). His early novels are: Czas pośpiesznej apoteozy, Ryba latająca. In 1994 he wrote the legendary Miss Nobody (filmed by Andrzej Wajda). The novel was immediately recognized as one of the most important Polish works of 1990-ties. The critics still strive in vain to pigeon-hole the novel. Miss Nobody has been called a fairy-tale, an initiation novel with social undertones, and Czesław Miłosz calls it "the first truly post-modernistic Polish novel". Critics have drawn analogies to Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Sylvia Plath and Umberto Eco, but Miss Nobody looks pretty even Emma Bovary dress. After this enormous success Tomek Tryzna was silent a few years to appear again on the literary scene in 2003 with Idź, kochaj (Jacek Santorski & Co.), a novel of at least the same caliber as Miss Nobody.
                                                               
Kanalia Paweł Pollak 
 
edition I 2006, ISBN 83-60207-74-7
 
            A crime wave: a young woman is found drowned in a river; somebody shot her in the head with Uzi. The body of a drug addict with a bashed head is found in the slums. An architect is gruesomely murdered at her own apartment; the perpetrator tortured her and left behind a Talmud with verses about “just revenge” marked with the offer’s blood. The cynical inspector Markowski, officer Senik and Lepka the novice and absolute greenhorn try to solve the case that begins to resemble a game of chess, and a rigged one at that. The detectives must cross arms with a real Grand Master… The investigation expands: amusement parlours, vestries, cemeteries, Satanists, a network of paedophiles. Izrael, Mossad, Berlin. Obsesive love.
 
Paweł Pollak – up torecently – a prominent translator from Swedish. Presently – one of the most eminent „crimilal talents” i Poland. When asked what he wants to mention about himself he replied tersely „I do not know what I could say except that this is my firs book. Self promotion is not easy”.:-)

Quest. Your Own Way to Success (Quest. Twoja droga do sukces)

 

 

Wojciech Eichelberger, François Nail, Pierre Forthomme 

 

PSYCHOLOGIA NA CO DZIEŃ  Psychology for Everyday

 

 

First edition

 

format 125 x 195

 

soft cover

 

128 pages

 

ISBN: 978-83-89763-54-9

 

publication date: February 2007

 

 

The authors incorporate the English word quest into their Polish title. They take the reader on a quest for himself, his true dreams, worthy goals and the means to realize them.

 

It is non one more popular psychological guide book with instructions in ten points whose rigorous application will assure professional and personal success. This book is rather like a wise guide who points you into a right direction, teaches you to ask correct questions and recognize real problems but who gives you enough space to seek on your own, make your own choices and your own mistakes which are looked upon not as tragedies but as opportunities to grow further.

 

Propped with intriguing life-stories, anecdotes and parables from different cultures, the book does not suggest ready recipes but makes you ponder on yourself and on your life.

 

Marek Stokowski
SAMO-LOTY // AIR-CRAFTS
 
Publication date: December 2005
   The outskirts of Warsaw in 1970. A teenage boy Marcin desperately wishes to liberate himself from the world of oppressive grown-ups that is the dirty and depressing world of communism. The only escape from humiliations and constant fear seems to be the wonderful world of airplanes. Together with his friends, Marcin constructs two peculiar aircrafts and makes imaginary air-journeys to France and America. Those crazy and colourful journeys, full of incredible adventures, are as real as the daily reality of deprived houses and yards, unfriendly neighbours, grey taste of poverty, bitter-sweet taste of youthful love, smell of forgotten gardens and the mystery of beloved air-port situated nearby.
   The two imaginary journeys end violently and unexpectedly, and they do not liberate Marcin from deep threats of his daily reality. That is why he has to undertake the third flight that differs and is much more dramatic than the previous, imaginary ones…
   Even though the main character of the novel is an adolescent, the book is addressed to general public, mainly the mature readers.
   “Air-crafts” in its genre seems to be very close to so called drama-comedy, however the humorous elements prevail.
   The novel can be seen as a hymn of praise to freedom symbolized by aircrafts.
   It is also a story about the enormous power of human dreams. Two decades later this mysterious power will help Marcin’s generation to overthrow communism in Poland.

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