Keynote
Twelve days from forty years of a life – this
is all we get to see from Zofia’s biography.
Yet it suffices to render a tale of a tough
upbringing in rural communist Poland,
solitude and hope for a better life.

Selling Points
 An incredibly original plot idea – the life
of a woman shown through twelve key
days over the course of decades.
 A study of the solitude and alienation of
a woman growing up in the countryside.
 A multidimensional novel about
the Polish countryside from the 1970s to
the present day.
 A confined, sometimes even intimate
tale that is still written with panache and
set against the historical canvas of the day.
 Profound and fascinating psychological
portraits, both male and female.
 A story of the Kaszuby area –
a fascinating yet little-known part of
Poland that is clearly distinct from the rest
of the country.
Description
It is the late 1970s in a small Kaszubian
village lost somewhere among the forests
and lakes of Northern Poland. We meet
Zofia as a young girl, living in a world
of rural superstition and generational
mistrust. Every chapter then sweeps us
four years forwards – in this way we get

a look at twelve days in the protagonist’s
life. We see how she matures, how she
feels unloved by her parents, mostly by her
mother. How she loses her father, when he
drowns in the lake and feels guilty for his
death. She enters her adult life lonely and
alienated, though surrounded by a large
family and friends. When she becomes
a mother, she does not feel ready for
the role. At any rate, she never feels ready
for any of the eternal female roles – but
the arrival of her daughter Magdalena into
the world changes her life. A touching tale
of anxiety and loneliness, but also growing
hopes for a better future.

Target Market
Those who love tales of drama.
Readers of sagas.

Release date: 2021
Pages: 382
ISBN: 978-83-08-07050-5


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Cicuta

Monika Drzazgowska

Keynote
Twelve days from forty years of a life – this
is all we get to see from Zofia’s biography.
Yet it suffices to render a tale of a tough
upbringing in rural communist Poland,
solitude and hope for a better life.

Selling Points
 An incredibly original plot idea – the life
of a woman shown through twelve key
days over the course of decades.
 A study of the solitude and alienation of
a woman growing up in the countryside.
 A multidimensional novel about
the Polish countryside from the 1970s to
the present day.
 A confined, sometimes even intimate
tale that is still written with panache and
set against the historical canvas of the day.
 Profound and fascinating psychological
portraits, both male and female.
 A story of the Kaszuby area –
a fascinating yet little-known part of
Poland that is clearly distinct from the rest
of the country.
Description
It is the late 1970s in a small Kaszubian
village lost somewhere among the forests
and lakes of Northern Poland. We meet
Zofia as a young girl, living in a world
of rural superstition and generational
mistrust. Every chapter then sweeps us
four years forwards – in this way we get

a look at twelve days in the protagonist’s
life. We see how she matures, how she
feels unloved by her parents, mostly by her
mother. How she loses her father, when he
drowns in the lake and feels guilty for his
death. She enters her adult life lonely and
alienated, though surrounded by a large
family and friends. When she becomes
a mother, she does not feel ready for
the role. At any rate, she never feels ready
for any of the eternal female roles – but
the arrival of her daughter Magdalena into
the world changes her life. A touching tale
of anxiety and loneliness, but also growing
hopes for a better future.

Target Market
Those who love tales of drama.
Readers of sagas.

Release date: 2021
Pages: 382
ISBN: 978-83-08-07050-5


Other covers