OMA BOOKS

Poland — Warsaw

• 2017
  Things I Didn’t Throw Out
  Marcin Wicha · memoir · 2017

  Emptying his late mother’s Warsaw flat, a son sorts through her books and her life.

• 2016
  The King of Warsaw
  Szczepan Twardoch · novel · 2016

  1937: a Jewish boxer rises as a gangster’s enforcer in Warsaw’s underworld.

• 2007
  Entanglement
  Zygmunt Miłoszewski · crime · 2007

  A Warsaw prosecutor investigates a death during a group therapy weekend.

• 2007
  The Zookeeper’s Wife
  Diane Ackerman · history · 2007

  1939–45: Warsaw’s zookeepers hide Jews in the empty cages and villa of the zoo.

• 1986
  The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman
  Andrzej Szczypiorski · novel · 1986

  1943: a Jewish widow with false papers is arrested in occupied Warsaw.

• 1978
  Shosha
  Isaac Bashevis Singer · novel · 1978

  1930s: a young writer returns to Krochmalna Street and his childhood love in Warsaw.

• 1977
  Shielding the Flame
  Hanna Krall · history · 1977

  1943: Marek Edelman, last leader of the ghetto uprising, looks back at Warsaw.

• 1950
  The Wall
  John Hersey · novel · 1950

  1939–43: the Warsaw ghetto, from its walling to the uprising, in an archivist’s notes.

• 1946
  The Pianist
  Władysław Szpilman · memoir · 1946

  A Jewish pianist survives the Warsaw ghetto and the city’s destruction.

• 1890
  The Doll
  Bolesław Prus · novel · 1890

  1870s: a rich Warsaw merchant ruins himself for a cold aristocrat.