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White Nights

by Urszula Honek Publisher: TWO LINES PR

Thirteen stories from rural southern Poland

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Longlisted for the Booker International Prize

    Longlisted for the Booker International Prize.

AlbakiReads Editorial

Thirteen stories from rural southern Poland

Set in a village in the remote countryside of southern Poland, White Nights builds a collective portrait through thirteen interconnected stories. The lives at its center are shaped by family ties, hardship and tragedy, with ordinary efforts—to work, raise children, or seek intimacy—set against a landscape marked by poverty and brutality. The stories connect private damage with a broader sense of community, while holding space for care and hope alongside ruin. The book’s structure lets the village emerge through separate but linked lives, rather than through one continuous storyline.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in linked-story collections and shared communities.
  • Readers drawn to rural settings and family stories shaped by hardship.
  • Readers seeking fiction that brings together themes of tragedy, care, ruin, and hope.

Themes

Rural communityFamily and tragedyPoverty and hardshipCare and hope

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Book overview

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE


In a village in the remote countryside of southern Poland, it's as if the poverty and brutality emanate like mist from the cursed dirt. The thirteen interconnected stories in White Nights tell of families, scarred by tragedy but also by each other. Whether by digging a pond deep in the woods, taking a lover, raising a family, or simply trying to get ahead of the endless work as the thunder rolls over their home, Urszula Honek's characters share, with the sincerest care and honesty, a local--yet so clearly universal--story of ruin and hope. Kate Webster's blazing translation of Urszula's poetic and earthen prose brings us to places seldom seen in literature, where the people do not ask to be understood, but merely to be heard.

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