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A Long, Long Time Ago And Essentially True (2009)

by Brigid Pasulka(Favorite Author)

3.97 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0547055072 (ISBN13: 9780547055077)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Co

review 1: when I set my eyes on this book I immediately fell I'm love with the cover...when I read the back page review..I classified it as a horrible cheesy romance...and it found its way to the bottom shelf.it lay there while I read other seemingly better works like my family and other animals or to kill a mockingbird...when I finally faced it I realized the great expertise of the author...the seriousness behind the childish cover and the legacy behind the cheesy review.especially considering this is her debut the author had amazing skills...and the book is in my list of classics to be.beware its anything but a corny lovstory...both the cover and review are sadly misleading....though they are the perfect match for this book.loved reading it.very reluctant to turn the last page...a... mores can be observed by the time it took to read it.it's after all a fantastic goodread.:)
review 2: I found this book hard to read until I abandoned the alternating points of view and read one story through to the end and then the other. It made everything less confusing I was able to enjoy both stories. There is much to admire here. Brigid Pasulka clearly gets the mind set of Poles both currently and during the war. However, the wartime love story suffered from a lack of space compared with the contemporary one. I speak Polish and was puzzled by the seemingly random use of Polish words where the English equivalent would have made the text more clear. Foreign words or expressions in a text can add flavor to a book especially when there is no equivalent translation. but I found this randomness irritating. less

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