The Bronski House

An account of a mother and daughter caught up in the ravages of two world wars. It is a tale of love, family tragedy and survival by the winner of the 1994 Somerset Maugham Award.

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In the summer of 1992, the exiled poet Zofia Ilinska stepped into the the day she'd been forced to flee. In part, this is the remarkable story of what she found, the account of a woman coming face-to-face with her own past. But it is also the reconstruction of a world which vanished in 1939 when Soviet tanks rolled into eastern Poland.