1 Znak Publishers Rights Catalogue Spring 2018 Religion, History, Philosophy, Fiction Social Science Żanna Słoniowska, The House with a Stained-Glass Window – ZNAK Literanova 3 Józef Czapski, The Inhuman Land. New Edition – ZNAK 13 Wiesław Myśliwski, The Final Hand – ZNAK 3 Anna Herbich, Girls of the Warsaw Rising ‘44 – ZNAK Horyzont 13 Jacek Dehnel, Krivoklat – ZNAK Literanova 4 Kamil Janicki, DAMES OF THE POLISH EMPIRE: Women who built an empire – ZNAK Horyzont 13 Maryla Szymiczkowa, Mrs Mohr Goes Missing – ZNAK Literanova 4 Kacper Śledziński, The Cursed Army: The Odyssey of General Anders’ Army – ZNAK Horyzont 13 Maryla Szymiczkowa, The Torn Curtain – ZNAK Literanova 4 Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message – ZNAK 14 Maryla Szymiczkowa, A Séance at the Egyptian House – ZNAK Literanova 4 Ewa K. Czaczkowska, The Pope Who Believed – ZNAK 14 Mateusz Janiszewski, Orthodromy – ZNAK Literanova 5 Natalia Budzyńska, Brother Albert. A Biography – ZNAK 14 Paweł Huelle, Sing Gardens – ZNAK 5 Marek Łuszczyna, Small Crime. Polish Concentration Camps – ZNAK Horyzont 14 Kornel Filipowicz, My Dear Proud Province – ZNAK 5 Piotr Sztompka, Social Capital – ZNAK Horyzont 14 Joanna Bator, Puresento – ZNAK 6 Michal Witkowski, Wipeville – ZNAK Literanova 6 Michał Witkowski, Fynf und Cfancyś – ZNAK Literanova 6 Zośka Papużanka, I Made a World for You – ZNAK Literanova 7 Zośka Papużanka, He – ZNAK Literanova 7 Magdalena Stachula, The Perfect One – ZNAK Literanova 7 Magdalena Stachula, The Third One – ZNAK Literanova 7 Books for Children Magdalena Stachula, Trapped – ZNAK Literanova 7 Anna Cieplak, Zero-Plus Years – ZNAK Literanova 8 Andrzej Maleszka, The Magic Tree – ZNAK Emotikon 15 Katarzyna Michalak, Windfall – ZNAK Literanova 8 Andrzej Maleszka, Heroes of the Magic Tree. The Kidnapping – ZNAK Emotikon 15 Dorota Gąsiorowska, The Girl from the Hat Shop – ZNAK Literanova 8 Renata Kijowska, Jack the Bear: Stories from the Bear’s Lair – ZNAK Emotikon 15 Anna Ficner-Ogonowska, A Crumb – ZNAK 8 Dorota Kassjanowicz, Three Two One, Sleeping is Fun – ZNAK Emotikon 16 Magdalena Kordel, Forty-Eight Weeks – ZNAK 8 Michał Rusinek, Kefir in Cairo – ZNAK Emotikon 16 Beata Sadowska, Momo Doesn’t Like Travelling – ZNAK Emotikon 16 Marek Kamiński, Katarzyna Stachowicz-Gacek, Marek and the Panther Skull – ZNAK Emotikon 16 Zuzanna Kiełbasińska, Anna Nowacka, Bolek and Lolek: A Tour around Poland – ZNAK Emotikon 17 Szymon Radzimierski, The Diary of an Adventure Hunter. Ethiopia: At the Feet of the Fire Mountain – ZNAK Emotikon 17 Anna Dziewit-Meller, Ladies, Chicks, Girls: History Wears a Skirt – ZNAK Emotikon 17 Non-Fiction Leszek Kołakowski, Paweł Pawlak, 13 Tales from the Kingdom of Lailonia for the Big and Little – ZNAK Emotikon 17 Andrzej Franaszek, Herbert. A Biography – ZNAK 9 Andrzej Franaszek, Miłosz. A Biography – ZNAK 9 Michał Rusinek, Nothing Usual: About Wisława Szymborska – ZNAK 9 Małgorzata Szejnert, The Isle of Snakes – ZNAK 10 Małgorzata Szejnert, Building Mountains: Stories from the Polesie Region – ZNAK 10 Wojciech Jagielski, East of the West – ZNAK 10 Wojciech Jagielski, All Lara’s Wars – ZNAK 10 Mariusz Sepioło, Women in the Himalayas: A story about female climbers who will conquer any peak – ZNAK 11 Bartek Dobroch, Hajzer: The Road of the Elephant – ZNAK 11 Iza Michalewicz, Almost Perfect Crimes. The Police X-Files – ZNAK 11 Ms Groke, The Great Life Hacker, Or how to be happy doing nothing – ZNAK Literanova 11 Malka Kafka,God Food: Malka Kafka’s Divine Cooking – ZNAK Literanova 12 Monika Śmigielska, Kitchen Dresser. Polish pre-war cooking – ZNAK Horyzont 12 2 About the author: About us Fiction Żanna Słoniowska was born in 1978 in Lviv and is a journa- list and translator. She now lives in Kraków. She is the first winner of the Znak Publishers’ Literary Prize and her novel was chosen from among over a thousand entries. She curren- tly works on her second novel. Established in 1959 ZNAK The House with the Stained-Glass Window is remarkable, a gripping, Lvivian evocation of a city and a family across a long and painful century, at once personal and political, a novel of life Publishers ranks as one of the and survival across the ages. Philippe Sands most important Polish publi- author of East West Street Translation samples in English, French and German available shing houses. More than just a publishing house, Znak has provided for over 50 years a forum for important debate and thus it made a major contribution to Polish culture. Znak publishes about 300 new titles per year, in the past three years our yearly sales reached nearly 9 million copies. Our titles were translated into more than 15 languages and sold in more than 20 countries. Our list includes Nobel Prize winners like Wisława Szymborska, Czesław Miłosz, J.M. Coetzee, Joseph Brodsky, Mario Vargas Llosa or Patrick Modiano. Żanna Słoniowska We also publish such authors as Zadie Smith, Ryszard Kapuściński, Wiesław The House with a Stained-Glass Window Myśliwski, Paweł Huelle, Seamus Heaney, Ian McEwan, Malcolm Gladwell, J.K. Rowling, Lauren Groff, Donna Tartt, Lawrence Osborne, Katherine Boo, Andrew Release date: February 2015 Miller, Hanif Kureshi, Jung Chang, Joan Didion. Rights sold: Ukraine (The Old Lion Publishing House), UK (MacLehose Press), In order to better communicate with our readers, in 2010 we established four Russia (Inostrannaya Literatura), imprints: ZNAK, Znak Horyzont, Znak Literanova and Znak Emotikon. ZNAK France (Delcourt), Germany (Kampa Verlag) provides a unique combination of tradition and change in producing books 2016 Nike Literary Award Nominee that deserve classic status. Znak Horyzont provides thoroughly rewarding 2016 Conrad Award for the best literary debut material to satisfy the most demanding readers. Major topics and leading names, wide-ranging scope and profound analysis. Znak Literanova is focused on About the book: Wiesław Myśliwski Four generations of women: a greatgrandmother, a grand- The Final Hand contemporary voices, which speak of current events and trends. Znak Emotikon mother, a daughter and a granddaughter reside in a Lviv house. is home to a number of the best children’s titles as Le Petit Nicolas by R. Goscinny Lviv is a city at the crossroads of cultures and nationalities, Release date: 2013 and J-J. Sempé and The House of Secrets by Chris Columbus and Ned Vizzini. a city of falling balconies, ornate building façades and vandali- Rights sold: France (Actes Sud), Holland (Querido), zed Lenin statues. The men are dead or missing and now the Lithuania (Mintis) We see the future in the light of our basic ideas and our past and consequently women must fight their wars and stage revolutions. Each of we look for ways to further strengthen our position as publisher of the best and them chooses her own way to confront harsh reality. Marianna, About the book: the most stimulating books in Poland. the daughter, an opera singer, is killed by a stray bullet during The Final Hand is the new literary masterpiece we have a riot. When her daughter grows up, she meets Mikołaj, a much been looking forward to for several years now. older artist who becomes her mentor. The thread of under- The novel’s main protagonist wishes to organise his standing that develops between them is quickly transformed vast notebook – a collection of addresses and visiting cards – into mutual fascination. Yet it soon turns out that the man because he feels that this exercise will allow him to organise was once Marianna’s lover. Is this relationship just his way of and take stock of his whole life. In his memory he returns getting close to his long gone sweetheart? to the days of his youth, recalling his mother, his friends The House with a Stained-Glass Window is a moving story and relatives. Rearranging the notebook also becomes an about women and history, about unpredictable fates and excuse for ruminating on his relationships with women, his revolution, which takes away loved ones and turns the world short-lived affairs, and finally his most significant emotional upside down. experience, his love for Maria. The Final Hand encourages us 3 to think, without teaching, moralising or passing judgment. Maryla Szymiczkowa Maryla Szymiczkowa It shows life as it is, with all its pluses and minuses. It is Mrs Mohr Goes Missing A Séance at the Egyptian House a philosophical, multi-dimensional novel, the theme being mankind and human fate, suspended between chance and Release date: July 2015 Release date: July 2018 necessity. Masterfully constructed, this is a novel we want to Rights sold: UK (Oneworld) Rights available: World read and re-read, to discover new dimensions and perspectives every time. The elemental force of the story is so enthralling About the book: About the book: that the reader lets him- or herself be carried away by it. Mrs Szczupaczyńska, the professor’s wife, has a thousand Decadence, table-turning, and a murderer from the nether things to do. world Autumn 1898. About the author: She must remember about the poussin for dinner, not forget In Geneva, an assassin drives a file through Empress Wiesław Myśliwski is the only writer to have twice received to buy wine to prevent cholera, and check whether the new Sissi’s heart, and Kraków gets visited by Satan himself: the the Nike Literary Prize, Poland’s most prestigious literary maid has cleaned the silver properly. But at the same time she’s writer Stanisław Przybyszewski. Some weeks later, the polite award. His novels and plays are usually discussed in the tremendously bored. Krakow in 1893 does not offer much in society – including the very excited Mrs Zofia Szczupaczyńska context of “peasant literature”, dealing with the problems the way of entertainment. So when she happens to find out that professor’s wife – gather in the recently built Egyptian House of the identities of villages and their inhabitants in times of one of the inmates of the famous Helcel House for retired ladies to watch total lunar eclipse and take part in a séance.