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Praise for the first novel in the Teodor Szacki series:
"In Entanglement Miloszewski takes an engaging look at modern Polish society in this stellar first in a new series starring Warsaw prosecutor Teodor Szacki. Readers will want to see more of the complex, sympathetic Szacki."—Publishers Weekly
It is spring 2009, and prosecutor Szacki is no longer working in Warsaw—he has said goodbye to his family and to his career in the capital and moved to Sandomierz, a picturesque town full of churches and museums. Hoping to start a "brave new life," Szacki instead finds himself investigating a strange murder case in surroundings both alien and unfriendly.
The victim is found brutally murdered, her body drained of blood. The killing bears the hallmarks of legendary Jewish ritual slaughter, prompting a wave of anti-Semitic paranoia in the town, where everyone knows everyone. The murdered woman's husband is bereft, but when Szacki discovers that she had a lover, the husband becomes the prime suspect. Before there's time to arrest him, he is found murdered in similar circumstances. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of Polish–Jewish relations and something that happened more than sixty years earlier.
Zygmunt Miloszewski was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1975. His first novel The Intercom was published in 2005 to high acclaim. In 2006 he published The Adder Mountains; in 2010, the crime novel Entanglement; and this year its sequel, A Grain of Truth.
- Sales Rank: #71089 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Bitter Lemon Press
- Published on: 2013-01-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.75" h x 1.38" w x 5.13" l, .70 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 380 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
From Booklist
Polish mystery writer Miloszewski’s first novel, Entanglement (2010), earned the High Calibre Award and was made into a movie. This second in the series finds state prosecutor Teodor Szacki tackling anti-Semitism in Poland. Szacki has left Warsaw after ending his marriage and settled in Sandomierz, a picturesque town with beautiful churches and museums. As an outsider, he is not welcomed by the residents. When a woman is found dead with her body completely drained of blood, Szacki investigates, despite the lack of cooperation from the local police. The killing looks like ritual slaughter, and it triggers anti-Semitic paranoia in the close-knit community. Szacki must face the painful history of Polish-Jewish relations and the aftermath of an event that occurred 60 years earlier. Miloszewski’s compelling mystery offers a revealing glimpse of life in modern Poland, a country still dealing with its complicated past. --Barbara Bibel
Review
PRAISE FOR ENTANGLEMENT (978-1904738-442) "Miloszewski takes an engaging look at modern Polish society in this stellar first in a new series starring Warsaw prosecutor Teodor Szacki. Readers will want to see more of the complex, sympathetic Szacki." Publishers Weekly "ENTANGLEMENT has everything I want from a thriller. It opens with a murder and quickly develops into a fast-moving and tightly plotted whodunit with a host of colourful characters and vivid descriptions of contemporary Cracow. But it's the unsatisfactory personal life and emotional turmoil of its hero, State Prosecutor Teodor Szacki that steal centre stage." Oxford Times
About the Author
Zygmunt Miloszewski is an award-winning Polish novelist and screenwriter. His first two mysteries featuring prosecutor Teodor Szacki, Entanglement and A Grain of Truth, have received international recognition, making him the #1 bestselling author in Poland and one of the world s best-known contemporary Polish writers. Miloszewski has won the Polityka Passport for Polish literature. He s also twice won the High Calibre Award for the best Polish crime novel and earned two nominations to the French Prix du Polar Europeen for the best European crime novel.
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Revenge is sweet
By Sandy Harcourt
Zygmunt Miloszewski's `A Grain of Truth' is what Bitter Lemon Press is all about - the cream of European detective fiction perfectly translated into English. Among English detective writers, only P.D. James matches Miloszewski's elegance and style of plot and writing. Teodor Szacki, the cultured, thoughtful, lonely protagonist is James' Adam Dalgliesh.
If not for Bitter Lemon Press, much of the best of modern European literature - yes, whodunits can be literature - would be unavailable to us. As it is, we have a classic tale of gruesome murders, jealousy and long-simmering hate. Set in Sandomierz, a claustrophobic small-town in Poland, the story has the added ingredient of continuing anti-Semitic bigotry in this country of so many of the Nazi extermination camps.
May there be as many more murder cases for Szacki to unravel as Dalgliesh has solved over the years.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Second in the series
By Jill Meyer
"A Grain of Truth", by Polish author Zygmunt Miloszewski, is the second in his Teodor Szacki series. Set in Poland, Szaki is a Warsaw-born state prosecutor, who after his personal life takes a hit in Warsaw, moves to a beautiful town, Sandomierz, to "start over". He brings, along with his battered feelings, his well-earned reputation as a crime-solver. And there are some real crimes to be solved in the city of Sandomierz.
Sandomierz is located in southeast Poland and is a real city with a rather interesting history. It was the home, before WW2, of a fairly large Jewish population and a visitor can find today remnants of that society. Most of the Jews of Sandomierz and the surrounding area were killed by the German occupiers, and the complicity of the native Polish Catholic has been questioned in the past 70 years. Certainly, the few Jewish survivors who returned after the war were not welcomed home by the Polish Catholics who had, in many cases, appropriated their homes and businesses. That's a different story from the three murders that occur in the city in 2008 that Szaki and his joint legal/police team are charged with solving. But the problems of the past directly affect the crimes of today, as Teodor Szaki discovers.
Sandomierz, the real place, is home to a real church with anti-Semitic art work on the walls. One large picture shows medieval Jews engaging in blood lust; killing Christians for their blood in rather horrifying ways. Another large picture shows 365 days of the year and the ghastly deaths of saints on each day. This blood-libel myth, combined with murders of three Polish Catholics, sends Szaki looking in directions not normally indicated in a murder investigation. All three murders were done in ways that would indicate a Jewish killer. In modern day Poland, in a city with it's own dubious history of anti-Semitism, bringing up the sins of the past is troublesome part of the case.
Author Miloszewski does an admirable job combining the Poland of today with the one of the past. His characters are splendidly drawn and are all interesting. The plot is somewhat lacking in coherence, which may be more the problem of the translator than of the author. The somewhat-incoherence of the plot is not off-putting; it's just sort of there around the edges. The reader may question a minor plot point that doesn't seem to fit. The book was probably a bit better in the original Polish.
But "A Grain of Truth" is well worth reading. I'm going back and reading the first in the series - "Entanglement" - and I hope Miloszewski writes more in the series.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A Tangled History/Mystery
By Kindle Customer
I know, two five stars in a row......but this book is superb on every level.
First the characters...Prosecutor Teodor Szack, forty years of age, successful in Warsaw, successful in a provincial district, divorces his wife and relocates. His character's view of the rule of law, the Republic, his relationship with his daughter, and the way he carries out his duties make him a fascinating protagonist. The secondary characters-the suspect(s), a police Inspector who tantalizingly may or may not be Jewish, his bosses who happen to be female, and his lover are all extremely well drawn.
Next, a tutorial on the tangled history between Poles and Jews. He considers the phenomenon of the "blood libel," and nascent anti-Semitism in a country virtually without Jews. The grim picture is offset by the optimism of an Israeli Rabbi, of Polish descent, who has "returned" to Poland. His perspective and cautious optimism prevent this book from becoming too one dimensional.
Finally, the mystery is extremely well written. The plot is outstanding. The misdirection is fair to the reader. The solution does not appear contrived. In fact, it was always there awaiting discovery by a particularly discerning reader. (Not this one).
This was simply a very enjoyable experience. The translation is also superb
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