{"product_id":"book-1uxv","title":"Olanda","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I've been happy since the morning. Delighted, even. Everything seems so splendidly transient to me.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins Olanda - or rather, so speaks its narrator, a man wandering the roads and woodlands of a small Polish town, losing and regaining his sight, breathing in the smells of fried pork chops and steamed potatoes, holding on to life without quite knowing what it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe world Rafał Wojasiński gives us here is the one most of us pass through without stopping: provincial Poland, glimpsed through a train window between important cities. Dilapidated farmhouses. Sagging apartment blocks. Overgrown cemeteries. Village drunks. A place that looks, from a distance, as though it has been quietly forgotten - by history, by progress, by God himself. Up close, it is full of people: aging beauties and gravedigger philosophers, defrocked seminarians and occasional politicians, each carrying the full weight of an ordinary life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the prestigious Marek Nowakowski Prize (2019), Olanda is a novel about the texture of existence in a small place, written with lyrical precision and a deep, undemonstrative tenderness. It does not claim to contain the whole world. It contains something better: a world that is entirely itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis English edition includes Old Man Kalina, Wojasiński's radio play, which extends and deepens the novel's vision of provincial life and its quietly extraordinary inhabitants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Charles S. Kraszewski, whose previous translations of Polish literature for Glagoslav include Adam Mickiewicz's Forefathers' Eve and A Burglar of the Better Sort by Tytus Czyżewski. Published with the support of the ©POLAND Translation Program.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67010342551856,"sku":"BD1uxv","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/1uxv-Square-cover.png?v=1781814135","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-1uxv","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}