“This story begins as it ends, with me…waiting for what all of us spend our whole lives waiting for: to not be alone anymore.”
—Rubén Degollado
An old man—poet, playwright, essayist, and scholar—sifts through the broken fragments of his memory as he recounts what it was like to grow up in Warsaw during the German occupation of World War II. The result is Kinderszenen, a searing and controversial memoir by a major post-war Polish writer….
