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Zal
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ISBN10: 1456558870
ISBN13: 9781456558871
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 11 2011
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781456558871
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 11 2011
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
When asked if the camera can lie, the photographer Walker Evans replied: Always. For the narrator of Zal (pronounced zhahl), the greater problem was self-deception. The story unfolds in the forty-eight hours preceding the 1981 crackdown by the Communist regime in Poland, as the narrator - a free-lance photojournalist documenting the era of Solidarnosc - searches for Marta, the enigmatic student he'd met months earlier in Krakow. Interwoven are other recollections - reaching back to his youth and forward to 1991, a decade after martial law in Poland abruptly altered the course of history. By turns haunting and hopeful, gritty and comic, Zal is a novel of words and images, memory and regret.
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