Chasing the King of Hearts

This is the first US publication of the book. Hanna Krall is an internationally acclaimed Polish writer and Holocaust survivor, specializing in the history of the Holocaust in occupied Poland. She is one of the key leading figures of the Polish reportage literary style, and her books regularly sell around twenty thousand copies in their native language. She has been translated into seventeen languages. Chasing the King of Hearts was internationally acclaimed and a bestseller in Poland; it also won the English PEN Award in 2013, the Found in Translation Award at the New Literature from Europe Festival in 2014, and was shortlisted for the Angelus Central European Literary Award. An introduction by translator Philip Boehm and a new afterword by noted Polish author Mariusz Szczygiel are unique to FP's US edition of the book. Szczygiel is a notable Polish author and journalist; he is the author of Gottland, which was published in the US by Melville House in 2014, and won the 2009 European Book Prize as well as the Polish Booksellers Prize.