{"product_id":"needles-eye-paperback","title":"Needle's Eye - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWieslaw Mysliwski\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBill Johnston\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rich, polyphonic novel from one of the leading voices of contemporary Polish literature, encompassing a half-century of history and memory\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a Polish village, a young man watches an old man trip and fall down a flight of stairs. From this singular event arises a cascade of memories, regrets, and longings: the buried sensations of a whole lifetime, condensed and released. We hear of life during occupation, the scarcities of a childhood lived under the sign of war--and fragments of a home's sounds and scents (the private speech of mothers and fathers, the treasures of coffee, raisins, almonds, and plums). There are loves unrequited and fulfilled, landscapes of winter and spring, old jobs and old friends, all flowing together. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWieslaw Myśliwski's latest novel is a personal epic written on the smallest scale. Its narrator, a medieval historian in his latter years, lives surrounded by images of the past. From within this wandering mind, Myśliwski has composed his own ode to lost time, a nonlinear, chameleonic meditation on a half-century of Polish life as it does not appear in the historical record. Part autobiography, part dreambook, \u003ci\u003eNeedle's Eye\u003c\/i\u003e is both a writer's farewell to the Poland of his youth and an extended address, like the final lecture prepared by its narrator, on the persistence and necessity of memory.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWieslaw Myśliwski \u003c\/b\u003eis the only writer to have twice received the Nike Prize, Poland's most prestigious literary award: in 1997 for his novel \u003ci\u003eHorizon\u003c\/i\u003e and again in 2007 for \u003ci\u003eA Treatise on Shelling Beans\u003c\/i\u003e. He worked as an editor at the People's Publishing Cooperative and at the magazines Regiony and Sycyna. In addition to the Nike Prize, Myśliwski has received the Stanislaw Pietak Prize, the Arts Ministry Prize, the State Prize, the Reymont Prize, the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation Award, and the Golden Sceptre Award. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBill Johnston \u003c\/b\u003eis\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eProfessor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. His translations include Witold Gombrowicz's \u003ci\u003eBacacay\u003c\/i\u003e; Magdalena Tulli's \u003ci\u003eDreams and Stones\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMoving Parts\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFlaw\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIn Red\u003c\/i\u003e; Jerzy Pilch's \u003ci\u003eHis Current Woman \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Mighty Angel\u003c\/i\u003e; Stefan Żeromski's \u003ci\u003eThe Faithful River\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eFado and Dukla\u003c\/i\u003e by Andrzej Stasiuk. In 1999 he received a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship for Translation. In 2008 he won the inaugural Found in Translation Award for Tadeusz Rozewicz's \u003ci\u003enew poems\u003c\/i\u003e, and in 2012 he was awarded the PEN Translation Prize and Three Percent's Best Translated Book Award for Myśliwski's \u003ci\u003eStone Upon Stone\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 424\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 7 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 21, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52609317863731,"sku":"9781962770392","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/dIQzb3psN-9781962770392.webp?v=1761818052","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/needles-eye-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}