Sploty with delivery to Ireland

Nominated for the Nike Literary Award, Anna Ciarkowska returns after four years with the novel „Sploty”. Ninety-eight-year-old Anna wants to do one thing before she dies: write down the story of her whole life. But what in that life is truly ours? Which story is really about us? Which belongs to us, when the end of every thread is always held by someone else? Which is true, when we all weave it together, each from our own side? And now, after almost a hundred years, the most important question remains: who has the last word? The author of „Dewocje”, „Pestki” and „Chłopcy, których kocham” presents an extraordinarily moving story about life and about the memory that outlasts it. Ciarkowska's prose, written in a subtle, poetic language, moves the reader deeply and touches on the emotions bound up with the passing of ourselves and of those closest to us. Yet „Sploty” is not a story about transience, but about what remains after us. How is a life made? A point is formed where two lives intersect. Then other lines pass through that point: broken lines, thick lines, lines racing past, lines that stop and stay in place. When a person disappears, the point disappears too, along with the whole unrepeatable interweaving, the whole coincidence of circumstances that person was. (excerpt)