The House with the Stained-Glass Window

The House with the Stained-Glass Window is remarkable, a gripping, Lvivian evocation of a city and a family across a long and painful century, at once personal and political, a novel of life and survival across the ages - Philippe Sands

Sloniowska writes subtly and beautifully - every phrase conjures up images, casting colourful lights just like the stained-glass window of the title.

This story could only have happened in Ukraine. And then again it could have happened anywhere, because the blood on the blue-and-yellow flag is just the beginning of an intimate tale about four generations of women. - Zwierciadlo.

A moving, incisive saga about women entangled by historical events. - Newsweek Polska.

Sloniowska is a fascinating story-teller who also gives insight into the reality of life in Ukraine. This is an astonishing literary discovery. - Polityka.

A city of women’s mysteries, and History, which the author constantly re-interprets. Zanna Sloniowska surprises and seduces. - Krytycznym Okiem.

This novel was written as a challenge to crushing, cruel history; it arose from a desire to give a voice to the individual experiences of women. But at a certain point it turns in a direction contrary to its original ambitions, and the counter-history disappears in the fog of exploding smoke grenades. - Gazeta Wyborcza.