Overview
In a novel set in Soviet-era Poland, a boy is bewitched by his teacher and vows to win her heart, but later, when he becomes a teacher himself, he sees the story from the opposite side of the instructor's desk. Reprint.
Madame tells the story of a self-absorbed Polish teenager as he pursues intellectual maturity, and the woman of his dreams, his French teacher ''Madame'', in the communist-dominated Warsaw of the early 1970s.
Libera paces his exuberant young hero''s fulminations, fantasies and discoveries beautifully, building a remarkably subtle characterisation of a free mind in a repressive culture. This is one of those rare novels which reminds us why we love books. A consummate literary entertainment.
- | Author: Antoni Libera, Agnieszka Kolakowska
- | Publisher: Canongate Books
- | Publication Date: May 24, 2004
- | Number of Pages:
- | Language: eng
- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781841955209
- | ISBN-10: 1841955205
