{"product_id":"man-in-shadow","title":"Man in Shadow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTranslated from the Polish by Stephanie Kraft\u003cbr\u003eTK-page paperback \/ 5\" x 8\" \/ ISBN 9781589882270\u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: 8\/3\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA blend of crime fiction and psychodrama, this is the first English-language edition of Eustachy Rylski's award-winning novel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“He was at odds with himself, though less as years went by, because things happened without his participation―because life ran along beside him and he stood on the bank, not so much helplessly as idly watching its current.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAleksander Rański, an attorney in his mid-thirties, lives with his mother in Warsaw, where his boredom with his job and his personal life eats away at him. He expected more civic improvement after the fall of Communism two years earlier, and his disillusionment, along with his love-hate relationship to his Russian heritage, leads him to accept a position with a Russian-connected mob boss who runs a trucking company in the city. Before long, driven by his inner emptiness, Rański beings to exploit his boss's paranoia and fabricate a drama with himself as the star―a drama that explodes out of his control in this fast-paced, atmospheric thriller.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEustachy Rylski\u003c\/strong\u003e is a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who was born near Nowy Sacz, Poland in November 1944, two months after his father was killed in World War II. In 1984, at age 39, he published his first work of fiction, \u003cem\u003eStankiewicz.The Return\u003c\/em\u003e, which won a wide readership. He turned to writing plays and gained acclaim with works for television. With his wife he founded the elegant women’s magazine \u003cem\u003eTwój Styl (Your Style)\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2004 Rylski published \u003cem\u003eMan in Shadow (Człowiek w Cieniu),\u003c\/em\u003e his first novel in twenty years, and one of several that have brought him national and international recognition. His works have been translated into Italian, German, French, Russian, Hungarian, Spanish, Russian, and Czech, among other languages. Famous for his dictum that good writing takes not only talent but wisdom, Rylski also told Polityka, “I'm one hundred percent certain that my work hasn't unraveled the mystery of existence. From time to time, however, I try.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStephanie Kraft\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eNo Castles on Main Street\u003c\/em\u003e and the translator or co-translator of three Polish novels, \u003cem\u003eStone Tablets\u003c\/em\u003e by Wojciech Żukrowski, \u003cem\u003eMarta\u003c\/em\u003e by Eliza Orzeszkowa, and \u003cem\u003eThe Homeless\u003c\/em\u003e by Stefan Żeromski. Kraft was a newspaper reporter and freelance writer for forty years and travelled annually to Poland for more than thirty years. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eustachy Rylski","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50478432256240,"sku":null,"price":23.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0446\/9005\/files\/ManInShadowcover_FINAL.jpg?v=1789656049","url":"https:\/\/www.pauldrybooks.com\/en-au\/products\/man-in-shadow","provider":"Paul Dry Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}