Poland Freeze Frames

Poland’s recent history from Solidarity to martial law, from martial law to the end of communism and today’s rough and tumble politics are all encompassed in this collection of stories by Janusz Anderman’s relentlessly honest gaze and his stark ‘tape recorder ear’ – the raw prose he pioneered amid the mainly lyric poetry of the Polish dissidents.  “The crowd [here] has similarities to characters in the puppet theatre…the Journalist, the Pro­vocateur, the Official, the Drunkard, the Patriot