Their dramatic story is in itself enough to make the book a lasting pleasure. But Zeromski is also writing about a nation that hadn't actually existed since the previous century, and it is the complexity of his vision—of a Polish spirit without a Poland—that makes the novel a classic of European literature." —New Yorker

Their dramatic story is in itself enough to make the book a lasting pleasure. But Zeromski is also writing about a nation that hadn't actually existed since the previous century, and it is the complexity of his vision—of a Polish spirit without a Poland—that makes the novel a classic of European literature." —New Yorker

Their dramatic story is in itself enough to make the book a lasting pleasure. But Zeromski is also writing about a nation that hadn't actually existed since the previous century, and it is the complexity of his vision—of a Polish spirit without a Poland—that makes the novel a classic of European literature." —New Yorker