Maria Kuncewiczowa

The Polish reader in "The Collusion of the Absent" is struck primarily by the author's presence among us in the dark times of the war. And also a special ability to synthesize experiences experienced among one's own and strangers, so that everything that is materially absent - and yet existing in the sphere of longings and memories - is conveyed to the reader, sharing with him emotions, anxiety, uncertainty, bringing people closer to what is human,...

A retelling of the 12th century legend of Tristan and Yseult, set in England in the years immediately after World War II.