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A Polish son in the motherland : an American's journey home / Leonard Kniffel.
Record details
- ISBN: 1585444200 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781585444205 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1585444413 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781585444410 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: ix, 236 p. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2005.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Back in the old country -- Her father's child -- After the first people in the world -- The four corners of Sugajno -- The sign of the cross -- Mothers and sons -- Like Grandma in the back seat -- Last train -- Chiseled in stone -- Castles in the air -- Pieces of change -- The land they love -- To market -- Holy days -- Followed by water -- The best days begin in ordinary ways -- Property -- The priest and the ledger -- Temporary blindness -- All those good-byes -- The body of Christ -- At night by the river -- Dinner with Madame and her son -- In the dark without the son -- The underside of a mushroom -- The hunt for hidden treasure -- Women dancing in their slips -- To Grandmother's house we go -- What used to be Polish -- Little mysteries unraveling -- What took you so long? -- A young man and his needlepoint -- Pilgrims -- The Nowe Miasto hillbillies -- The other side of the family -- A father and his daughter -- Waiting -- The vigil -- Whether or not it's time -- The last act -- Epilogue. |
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Subject: | Poland > Description and travel. Kniffel, Leonard > Travel > Poland. |