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The Unmade World - A Novel (Paperback)
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The Unmade World - A Novel (Paperback)
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Set against a backdrop of the current political and cultural
upheaval in the US and Eastern Europe, The Unmade World is a
thoughtful, scope-y literary novel with a dose of suspense that
moves from Poland to California to the Hudson Valley and back to
Poland. It covers a decade in the lives of an American journalist
and a Polish small businessman turned petty criminal and the
wrenching aftermath of an accidental, tragic encounter between
these two on a snowy night in 2006 on the outskirts of Krakow. The
accident costs the lives of the American journalist Richard
Brennan's wife and daughter, an event that colors the rest of his
life. It also leads to a downward spiral for Bogdan Baranowsk,
leaving emotional scars as he suffers the seemingly inevitable loss
of his business, his home, and his wife. The Unmade World is a
story of ordinary, otherwise decent people from various backgrounds
and circumstances who must learn how to live with the personal
grief, sense of guilt, and the emotional consequences of violence.
Along the way, the novel grapples with a spectrum of cultural and
political issues. It includes a murder mystery wrapped around the
corruption of major college sports, the pressures on immigrants and
refugees in both the US and Poland, the fallout of political
change, economic upheavals and armed conflicts--including the
horrific destruction of Luhansk, Ukraine in 2014. It also
references the 2016 presidential campaign, cultural politics in the
American university, and the demise of print journalism, etc.,
though never in a dogmatic or overtly partisan way.
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