A Warsaw salon becomes an archive of ordinary lives. Paweł Sołtys listens for stories unlikely to find a place in official histories.
The attraction is the scale of attention: a voice, an encounter or a passing detail can preserve a whole fragment of city life. This is a good choice when you want to read in short sittings without treating the people on the page as brief distractions.
For readers drawn to character, language and the tensions within ordinary lives.


