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Author: Eva Stachniak
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Sep 2005
 | Garden of Venus
by Eva Stachniak
HarperCollins
455 pages $24.95 paper
ISBN: 0002005786
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Brief Reviews
by Olga Stein
Eva Stachniak has seized an opportunity with her Garden of Venus. She may be the first in Canada to have penned a novel centering on Polish history of the last half of the 18th century, that lamentable period of the three partitions-of 1772, 1793, and 1795-which culminated in the loss of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's sovereignty. Some surface digging yields fascinating details about the nation forged by Miszko I in the 10th century Read more...
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