Morally complex, stunningly written and brimming with imagination and empathy, this story is set in Nazi-occupied Warsaw in 1944. Censored by the Communists after the war, the novel was first published in Polish by a samizdat press in France in 1986.
The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman
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