About the Author

Zanna Sloniowska was born in 1978 in Lviv and is a journalist and translator. She now lives in Krakow. She is the first winner of the Znak Publishers' Literary Prize, for which her novel was chosen from among over a thousand entries. In 2016, Zanna Sloniowska won the Conrad Award, the Polish award for first novels.

Reviews

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 SandsSloniowska 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.