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Massolit is an independent English-language bookstore, both used and new, located in Krakow's old town. We specialize in popular and academic books, most at significantly discounted prices. Browse on-line through our more than 20,000 titles, or better, visit us in person! We welcome customers to browse the shelves and read our books or periodicals in the café or in the furnished back rooms.
A Death in Breslau
by Krajewski, Marek (A),
Breslau was a German city on the border of Czechoslovakia. It is now, since World War II, Wroclaw, in Poland. Marek Krajewski has written a quartet of novels which unfold the history of this exceptional city, standing on the faultline and crossroads of pages 20th century Europe. Breslau 1933: the mutilated bodies of a young woman and her ladies maid are found dead on a train. Scorpions writhe in her slashed stomach – a horrifying image that becomes crucial to the investigation. Inspector Eberhard Mock is called in to deal with the case, and is assigned an assistant, Herbert Anwaldt, an orphan. The investigation leads them deep into the city’s dirty underbelly, where perverted aristocrats cavort with prostitutes, corrupt ministers torture confessions from lowly Jews and Freemasons guard their secrets with blackmail and daggers. As Mock and Anwaldt unravel a mystery of ritual killing that dates back to the time of theCrusades, the elderly Mock and the young, fatherless Anwaldt become close. But the dark, occult aspect of this most macabre of cases might prove too much for Anwaldt’s sanity before a solution is secured. What makes Krajewski’s story so uncommonly powerful is the stifling atmosphere he conjures of a city in the grip of the Gestapo.
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Birthday Stories: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami
by Murakami, Haruki (Ed.),
Includes stories by Russell Banks, Ethan Canin, Raymond Carver, David Foster Wallace, Andrea Lee, Daniel Lyons, Lynda Sexson, Paul Theroux, William Trevor, Haruki Murakami, and others. This anthology aims to capture a range of emotions evoked by advancing age and the passing of time, from events fondly recalled to the impact of appalling tragedy.
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Thud!: A Novel of Discworld
by Pratchett, Terry (A),
Only Terry Pratchett could make ethnic conflict funny, and that's exactly what he does in this satiric fantasy novel, an addition to the long-running Discworld series. He also sends up art criticism and the hoopla surrounding the book THE DA VINCI CODE. As the anniversary of a legendary dwarf/troll conflict looms, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch must deal with the rising tensions between the two races, exacerbated by the inflammatory street sermons of a dwarf holy man, Grag Hamcrusher. Matters seem unlikely to improve when Hamcrusher is murdered, presumably by a troll.
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Equal Rites: A Discworld Novel
by Pratchett, Terry (A),
A dying wizard tries to pass on his power to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered too late. As part of a republication of the three original Discworld novels, this book includes a Discworld map, visitor's guide, crossword puzzle, and more.lspace.org.
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