The Issa Valley

Not only an impressive but an immediately appealing novel … The Issa Valley has the sensuousness and immediacy one associates with novels apparently inspired by the writer’s own childhood recollections: David Copperfield and The Mill on the Floss come to mind * Times Literary Supplement *Nothing rings false in this poetic and realistic tale. Even the scenes that … belong to another time and place will hold your attention to the end – Elie WieselA lyrical account of a rural boyhood, dominated by family, nature and village life … One is constantly aware of being in the hands of a master—of a talent that is original, unhurried, almost serene … He is a remarkable writer – Larry McMurtyAn idyll of immense charm and poetic depth … It takes a masterpiece to reveal the sheer unreality of our modern creative modes and poses, and Milosz’s novel is such a masterpiece – John Bayley * The New York Review of Books *

Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. Born in Lithuania while it was still part of the Russian Empire, he lived much of his life in Poland or exiled in California. He was the author of one of the definitive books on totalitarianism, The Captive Mind, but also wrote with extraordinary vividness and moral authority on his childhood, his experiences under Nazism, and on the tragedy of Central Europe.

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