People warned her: if you move to Canada you’ll end up cleaning dishes in some shabby Canadian bar, like so many Poles before you, and so many after. But Ewa was stubborn. She knew she can cope, she had always been strong. What she didn’t know was that if you make the very first step out of your doors you may never return the same. Immigrants hang suspended over the world, swaying from the new country to the old one, there and back, there and back, never home, never just here.
“ Great ability to build mood, clear and simple language, sharp observations”
“Subtle but brilliant auto-irony.”
Mieczyslaw Czuma
editor-in-chief of Przekrój Magazine
Shortlisted for the Srebny Kalamarz prize for the best book published in Poland in 2007
a novel about growing up in post-communist Poland
“Many plots mixed together like in a well-prepared salad make
“Lepszy Świat” an extremely interesting and gripping read.”
Łukasz Nowicki, Głos Wielkopolski (daily newspaper)
named one of the best books of summer 2004 by Newsweek Poland
