Jerzy Pilch is one of Poland's most important contemporary writers
and journalists. In addition to his long-running satirical
newspaper column, Pilch has published several novels, and has been
nominated for Poland's prestigious NIKE Literary Award four times;
he finally won the Award in 2001 for The Mighty Angel. His novels
have been translated into numerous languages.
David Frick is a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages
and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley.
"...it is the grotesquery of Pilch's buffoonery that makes A
Thousand Peaceful Cities such an urbane pleasure."Steven G.
Kellman, Barnes and Nobles Review
"A mind-bending romp by Polish journalist and novelist Jerzy Pilch,
miraculously translated by David Frick and published this month by
Open Letter."Anne Kjellberg, Little Star
While the idea of a quixotic assassination attempt as rite of
passage seems ridiculous, it offers Pilch a prize-winning Polish
novelist and newspaper columnist a way to get at the absurdity of
politics, the unbridgeable gap between public and private
life."David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times
"Jerzy Pilch, author of The Mighty Angel, has written a moving,
bittersweet meditation on family, responsibility, and the passage
of time."Rebecca Oppenheimer, Howard County Times
"...the unruly, wonderfully erudite, and hilariously surreal
product of a boisterous imagination set loose."Valentina Zanca,
Words Without Borders
"[Pilch] slashes mercilessly at the holy of holiest of his own
nation. He ridicules its virtues and its shortcomings; he spares
neither hero nor villain."Sally Boss, The Sarmatian Review
"With his latest, Pilch masterfully negotiates sentiment with a
clear-eyed vision of his autobiographical narrator’s shortcomings
and disappointments, suggesting a Dubliners set in
Krakow."Publishers Weekly (starred)
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