Welcome to Massolit Books & Café!
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.
Dukla
by Stasiuk, Andrzej (A),
At several points in the haunting Dukla, Andrzej Stasiuk claims that what he is trying to do is write a book about light. The result is a beautiful, lyrical series of evocations of a very specific locale at different times of the year, in different kinds of weather, and with different human landscapes. Dukla, in fact, is a real place: a small resort town not far from where Stasiuk now lives. Taking an usual form a short essay, a novella, and then a series of brief portraits of local people or events this book, though bordering on the metaphysical, the mystical, even the supernatural, never loses sight of the particular time, and above all place, in which it is rooted. Andrzej Stasiuk is one of the leading writers of Poland s younger generation, and is currently one of the most popular Polish novelists in English translation.
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In Red
by Tulli, Magdalena (A),
"The originality of Tulli's writing is not lessened by representing a family tree that includes Michaux, Kafka, Calvino, and Saramago."--W.S. Merwin In this inventive novel, Magdalena Tulli creates a world that is unreal, yet strangely familiar and utterly convincing. Set in a mythical fourth partition of Poland, "In Red" is full of haunting descriptions of the town and its inhabitants; its power lies in Tulli's evocative, almost hallucinatory use of language. Magdalena Tulli's novels include "Dreams and Stones," winner of Poland's Koscielski Foundation Award; "Moving Parts," nominated for the 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and "Flaw," shortlisted for the 2007 NIKE Literary Award. Tulli is also the translator of Marcel Proust and Italo Calvino into Polish.
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A Polish Book of Monsters
by Kandel, Michael (Ed.),
A Polish Book of Monsters contains five stories of speculative fiction edited and translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel, award-winning translator of the fiction of Stanislaw Lem. From dystopian science fiction to fabled fantasy, these dark tales grip us through the authors' ability to create utterly convincing alien worlds that nonetheless reflect our own.
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Poems
by Norwid, Cyprian Kamil (A),
Cyprian Norwid immerses the reader in his inventive and idiosyncratic verse in this stunning selection from his most revered poems, including a healthy sample from the celebrated Vade-mecum. True to the Latin, "go with me," Vade-mecum invites the reader to accompany Norwid on a journey through universal, timeless questions.
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Przewodnik po ciekawych wnetrzach i produktach: (Guidebook Cracow in Japanese language, focusing on Interior Design)
by Wawrzyniak-Ijichi, Marta (A),
This book ("Miwaku-no too, porando interia &zakka meguri - Przewodnik po ciekawych wnętrzach i produktach”) introduces contemporary Poland to Japanese readers in a subjective way. It is not a typical “guide book” and with plenty of color photographs it focuses on lifestyle & interior. The “example” Polish city presented in the book is the author's hometown Kraków. The book has 128 pages, 7 chapters: 1. Kraków Artists Life & Style (5 portraits) 2. Kraków Cafes & Restaurants (15 selected places) 3. Kraków Shops (13 selected shops) 4. Polish Products (supermarket products, sweets, daily goods, small souvenirs) 5. Polish Book Illustration (picture book collections and four art bookstores) 6. Markets (flea and farmers' markets) 7. Travel Information December 2011, Tatsumi Publishing Co., LTD. Tokyo. Photographs, text & book design: Marta Wawrzyniak-Ijichi
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