An elegy for eastern Europe

Fado by Andrzej Stasiuk

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Although this book became a bit laboured towards the end, I gave it four stars because of Stasiuk's writing, which is flawless. In fact, Stasiuk's prose is so beautiful that it hurts, every sentence a fragment of an elegy to the protracted death of old Europe. Simply wonderful.



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