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A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True by Brigid Pasulka is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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On the eve of World War II, in a place called Half-Village, a young man nicknamed the Pigeon falls in love with a girl fabled for her angelic looks. To court Anielica Hetmanská he offers up his "golden hands" to transform her family's modest hut into a beautiful home, thereby building his way into her heart. Then war arrives to cut short their courtship, delay their marriage, and wreak havoc in all their lives, even sending the young lovers far from home to the promise of a new life in Kraków. Nearly fifty years later, their granddaughter, Beata, repeats their postwar journey, seeking a new life in the fairy-tale city of her grandmother's stories. But when she arrives in Kraków, instead of the whispered prosperity of the New Poland, she discovers a city caught between its future and its past, and full of frustrated youths. Taken in by her toughtalking cousin Irena and Irena's glamorous daughter Magda, Beata struggles to find her own place in 1990s Kraków...
Who reads A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Brigid Pasulka
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780547055077
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Romance
- Rating
- 3.92 / 5 (1,372 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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