{"product_id":"city-of-lions-isbn-9781805330011","title":"City of Lions","description":"\u003cb\u003e“A loving, sensuous, but also gently ironic reconstruction of a lost city” \u003ci\u003e— LA Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA  timely reissue of the classic portrayal of the Ukrainian city of Lviv  by 2 authors in 2 acts, separated by time and circumstance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With an illuminating preface by Eva Hoffman and stunning new photographs by Diana Matar, \u003ci\u003eCity of Lions\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful and melancholy evocation of Ukraine in the  twentieth century, with a special resonance for today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lviv,  Lwów, Lvov, Lemberg. Known by a variety of names, the City of Lions is  now in western Ukraine. Situated in different countries during its  history, it is a city located along the fault-lines of Europe's history.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCity of Lions\u003c\/i\u003e presents two essays, written more than half a century apart - but united by one city.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Józef  Wittlin's lyrical paean to his Lwów, written in exile, is a deep cry of  love and pain for his city, where most people he knew have fled or been  killed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Philippe Sands' finely honed exploration of what has  been lost and what remains interweaves a lawyer's love of evidence with  the emotional heft of a descendant of Lviv.\"[Wittlin's essay \u003ci\u003eMy Lwów\u003c\/i\u003e is] for many Poles the definitive evocation of one of their great lost cities. . . a loving, sensuous, but also gently ironic reconstruction. . . Sands’s perspective is closer to that of the contemporary reader, who struggles with the juxtaposition between beauty, faded grandeur, and whimsical visions of a cosmopolitan past on the one hand, and savage mass murder on the other.\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Congratulations to Pushkin Press for bringing lovely, haunted Lviv to a new audience.\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e— Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A walk down memory lane, a meditation on time, politics and remembrance.\" — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDublin Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wittlin takes us on a detailed tour of the city... well-illustrated.\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e— East-West Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Beautiful and disturbing songs in prose.\"\u003cb\u003e - \u003ci\u003eKazimierz Wierzyński\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJózef Wittlin \u003c\/b\u003e(born 1896) was a major Polish poet, novelist,  essayist, and translator. He studied in Vienna, where he met Joseph Roth  and Rainer Maria Rilke, before serving in the Austro-Hungarian army in  the First World War. He published one novel and numerous collections of  poetry, many of which were characterised by their strong pacifist  sentiments. With the outbreak of WWII he fled to France and then to New  York, where he died in 1976.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilippe Sands\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor  of Law at University College London. He specialises in International  Law and International disputes. He has also published many books,  including \u003ci\u003eEast West Street \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Ratline\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntonia Lloyd-Jones\u003c\/b\u003e translates from Polish, and is the 2018 winner of the Transatlantyk  Award for the most outstanding promoter of Polish literature abroad. She  has translated works by several of Poland’s leading contemporary  authors.","brand":"Pushkin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304473743589,"sku":"NP9781805330011","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781805330011.jpg?v=1767723768","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/city-of-lions-isbn-9781805330011","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}