Polish Book Club: “Matka Polka”

The book for the meeting is Matka Polka by Anne Applebaum and Paweł Potoroczyn. It is an extensive interview that Applebaum agreed to do with Potoroczyn, a friend she shares many common interests with.

Applebaum is a Pulitzer winning author (for Gulag: a History), who published several books, essays and articles about history and politics of East European countries. The book is the first one where she discusses her life, decisions, political interests and her infatuation with Poland and its people. She married Radek Sikorski, later the Polish Defense Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, lives in Poland with her husband and two sons and is a Polish citizen. She also wrote a Polish cookbook… read more here

More: about Anne Applebaum and her personal website, her interview about the book, life and Poland

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