Jerzy Kosinski

»En av de bästa Skriven med djup innerlighet och sensibilitet.« Elie Wiesel, The New York Times Book Review Efter andra världskrigets utbrott placeras en sexårig pojke hos en fostermor på den polska landsbygden. Han har olivfärgad hy, mörkt hår och svarta ögon. Byborna uppfattar honom som en zigenare eller en judisk flykting. En kort tid senare avlider fostermodern, pojken måste fly och blir en utstött. Nu inleds en odyssé genom en sönderfallande värld, märkt av krigets fasor och den vidskepliga ­bondebefolkningens våldsamhet. När »Den målade fågeln« utgavs 1965 väckte den stor uppståndelse med sina råa skildringar av övergrepp och krigsbrott, men kallades också »en av årtiondets mest imponerande romaner« (LA Times) och översattes till 30 språk. Boken väckte skandal när det framkom att den inte byggde på författarens egna erfarenheter.

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William Kennedy has written in The Washington Post that "the Kosinski hero is unique in literature, as recognizable as the Hemingway hero used to be". Passion Play is the story of Fabian, Kosinski's most romantic and driven hero. A modern knight-errant, he roams America in his custom-built VanHome, his refuge, transport, and stable for his two horses. His livelihood is polo -- not the millionaire's team sport, but the life-threatening duel of clashing horsemen. The prize is more than money and honor; it is the awareness of having drawn upon every resource of body and mind, of man and horse in danger. Passion Play is a masterpiece of violence and seduction, love and loss, by one of the world's greatest writers.

As he moves among heads of state, renowned scientists, national heroes, sex scavengers, and jet-setters, George Levanter, involved with enterprises as businessman, gamesman, and lover, is faced with complex moral choices and emotional shocks

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction From the esteemed author of the classics The Painted Bird and Being There comes this award-winning novel about one man's sexual and sensual experiences, the fabric from which his life has been woven. Jerzy Kosinski's classic vision of moral and sexual estrangement brilliantly captures the disturbing undercurrents of modern politics and culture. In this haunting novel, distinctions are eroded between oppressor and oppressed, perpetrator and victim, narcissism and anonymity. Kosinski portrays men and women both aroused and desensitized by an environment that disdains the individual and seeks control over the imagination in his unforgettable and immensely provocative work.

Jerzy Kosinski's mythic, master-work of a shattered post-War Europe. Originally published in 1965, The Painted Bird established Jerzy Kosinski as a major literary figure. Kosinski's story follows a dark-haired, olive-skinned boy, abandoned by his parents during World War II, as he wanders alone from one village to another, sometimes hounded and tortured, only rarely sheltered and cared for. Through the juxtaposition of adolescence and the most brutal of adult experiences, Kosinski sums up a Bosch-like world of harrowing excess where senseless violence and untempered hatred are the norm. Through sparse prose and vivid imagery, Kosinski's novel is a story of mythic proportion, even more relevant to today's society than it was upon its original publication.

The hero of this astonishing novel is called Chance - he may be the man of tomorrow. Accidentally launched into a world of sex, money, power - and national television - he becomes a media superstar, a household name, the man of the hour - and, who knows, perhaps the next President of the United States of America.