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A Grain of Truth

Miłoszewski, Zygmunt (Book - 2012)
A Grain of Truth


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It is spring 2009, and prosecutor Teodor Szacki is no longer working in Warsaw--he has said goodbye to his family and to his career in the capital and moved to Sandomierz, a picturesque town full of churches and museums. Hoping to start a "brave new life," Szacki instead finds himself investigating

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It is spring 2009, and prosecutor Teodor Szacki is no longer working in Warsaw--he has said goodbye to his family and to his career in the capital and moved to Sandomierz, a picturesque town full of churches and museums. Hoping to start a "brave new life," Szacki instead finds himself investigating a strange murder case in surroundings both alien and unfriendly. The victim is found brutally murdered, her body drained of blood. The killing bears the hallmarks of legendary Jewish ritual slaughter, prompting a wave of anti-Semitic paranoia in the town, where everyone knows everyone. The murdered woman's husband is bereft, but when Szacki discovers that she had a lover, the husband becomes the prime suspect. Before there's time to arrest him, he is found murdered in similar circumstances. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of Polish-Jewish relations and something that happened more than sixty years earlier.

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Alternate Title: Ziarno prawdy. English
Additional Contributors: Lloyd-Jones, Antonia
Imprint: London - Bitter Lemon
Pages: 380
ISBN: 9781908524027, 1908524022
Language: English
Notes: A novel
"First published in Polish as Ziarno prawdy by Wydawnictwo W.A.B., 2011"--T.p. verso
"A second case for Polish State Prosecutor Teodor Szacki"--cover
Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-380)
Statement of responsibility: Zygmunt Miloszewski ; translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Characteristics: 380 p. ;,20 cm
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