Wieslaw Mysliwski

Our hero and narrator is the ageing caretaker of cottages at a summer resort. A mysterious visitor inspires him to share the story of his long life: we witness a happy childhood cut short by the war, his hiding from the Nazis buried in a heap of potatoes, his plodding attempts to play the saxophone, the brutal murder of his family, loves lost but...

A masterpiece of postwar Polish literature, Stone Upon Stone is Wies?aw My?liwskis grand epic in The rural tradition a profound and irreverent stream of memory cutting through the rich and varied terrain of one mans connection to the land, to his family and community, to women, to tradition, to God, to death, and to what it means to be alive....