by Sergiusz Piasecki · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788477273264
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«L'enamorat de l'Óssa Major» is the adventure novel by Sergiusz Piasecki, published by Quaderns Crema in paperback (520 pages, in Catalan).
Adventure novel set on the Russo-Polish border around 1926-1930, a no man's land where bandits and smugglers risk their lives and their goods. The night and the stars of the Great Bear accompany their dangerous routes, in a tale about moral freedom, loyalty and survival in a hostile world.
The work was originally published in 1937 under the title «Kochanek Wielkiej Niedźwiedzicy»; this Catalan edition, published in 2001, includes the translation by Anna Rubió and Jerzy Slawomirski.
A read for those who enjoy classic adventure novels, banditry and Polish literature of the interwar period.
Sergiusz Piasecki was one of the best known Polish writers of the mid 20th century. His novel written in prison, Lover of the Great Bear, published in 1937, was the third most popular novel in the Second Polish Republic. Following World War II, Piasecki's books were banned by Communist censorship in the People's Republic of Poland. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, in early 1990s, Lover of the Great Bear became again one of the best selling books in the country according to Rzeczpospolita daily newspaper. His other novel, an Anti-Soviet satire The Memoirs of a Red Army Officer, had already been reprinted several times.
