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A Polish son in the motherland [electronic resource] : an American's journey home / Leonard Kniffel.
ISBN:
9781603446006
Title:
A Polish son in the motherland [electronic resource] : an American's journey home / Leonard Kniffel.
Author:
Kniffel, Leonard.
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2005.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 236 pages)
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Back in the old country -- Her father's child -- After the first people in the world -- The four corners of Sugajno -- The sign of the cross -- Mothers and sons -- Like Grandma in the back seat -- Last train -- Chiseled in stone -- Castles in the air -- Pieces of change -- The land they love -- To market -- Holy days -- Followed by water -- The best days begin in ordinary ways -- Property -- The priest and the ledger -- Temporary blindness -- All those good-byes -- The body of Christ -- At night by the river -- Dinner with Madame and her son -- In the dark without the son -- The underside of a mushroom -- The hunt for hidden treasure -- Women dancing in their slips -- To Grandmother's house we go -- What used to be Polish -- Little mysteries unraveling -- What took you so long? -- A young man and his needlepoint -- Pilgrims -- The Nowe Miasto hillbillies -- The other side of the family -- A father and his daughter -- Waiting -- The vigil -- Whether or not it's time -- The last act -- Epilogue.
Local Note:
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Format:
Electronic Resources
Electronic Access:
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Publication Date:
2005
Publication Information:
College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2005.