Krauze

Questa è la storia di una Londra che non troverete in nessuna guida turistica. È una storia di torri di cemento e finestre sbarrate, e notti passate nelle celle della polizia. Fratellanza e tradimenti. Violenza e vendetta. E poi noia, furia, disperazione, paura e speranza. È la storia di ciò che ci lasciamo dietro le spalle. Il narratore di questo memoir ha due nomi, due identità, è sospeso tra due mondi che più diversi non potrebbero essere: da un lato la criminalità delle gang giovanili nella periferia londinese, dall'altro le aule della Queen Mary University dove studia i classici della letteratura inglese.

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 'A literary rendering of the Top Boy generation… I cannot conjure another work which captures this culture in such depth – or with such brutal honesty – as only lived experience can tell ' Graeme Armstrong, author of The Young Team 'An astonishingly powerful book' Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love This life is like being in an ocean. Some people keep swimming towards the bottom. Some people touch the bottom with one foot, or even both, and then push themselves off it to get back up to the top, where you can breathe.

This book helps anyone seeking to understand Latin America in today's world. Having read the president of Colombia's book on the war on terrorists, I found the facts in Redeemers to further expand my knowledge. To anyone who has read translations of the Kremlin's Verona Papers in such books as "Dupes", and wondered if the communist parties of Latin America were also supported by the USSR, this book has answers in the affirmative.

Issues of how artistic freedom was exercised and how well-known figures (Lutoslawski, Górecki, Penderecki) and unduly neglected composers (Baird, Serocki, Krauze) reacted to political upheavals form the core of this study of an incredibly rich musical history. Since the death of Szymanowski in 1937, Poland's music has been influenced by violent political upheavals–World War II, the Stalinism of the Cold War, the "thaw" of the late 1950s and 60s, the election of the Polish Pope and the rise and fall of the Solidarity Trade Union.