The Peasants

Name: The Peasants
SKU: 9780241524244
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Wladyslaw Reymont

LITERATURE

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Coup de coeur (Literature), by Amanda

If you enjoy 19th-century classics like Anna Karenina, Germinal or The Brothers Karamazov, have I got the book for you! Set in a Polish farming village in the 1880s with an unforgettable cast of characters, featuring the patriarchal Boryna, the young and reckless Jagusia, the hot-headed Antek and the hard-working Hanka, The Peasants is an intense drama of love, family and identity accompanied by an eternal hymn to the all-powerful, life-giving land. Raw, realistic and beautifully poetic, Reymont's storytelling turns the everyday into an epic of almost mythological grandeur.

One of Poland's most engrossing twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

In the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth. Boryna, a widower and the village's wealthiest farmer, has taken the young and beautiful Jagusia as his bride - but she only has eyes for his impetuous son Antek. Over the course of four seasons - Autumn to Summer - the tangled skein of their story unravels, watched eagerly by the other peasants: the gossip Jagustynka, pious Roch, hot-blooded Mateusz, gentle Witek ... Richly lyrical and thrillingly realist, at turns comic, tragic and reflective, Wladyslaw Reymont's magnum opus is a love song to a lasting dream of rural Poland, and to the eternal, timeless matters of the heart.

Translated by Anna Zaranko

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Binding: Paperback

Publication date: 12 Sept 2024

Dimensions: 131 x 197 x 45 mm

ISBN: 9780241524244