This book is about a grandmother. And a grandmother is an important person in our lives. The one who has had a grandmother learns to love life. No matter what she is like...
But the book is not only about that...
Grandmother has a higher purpose. Through love for her, a person learns to love their homeland, because a person’s grandmother is also their homeland. Lyaia Benetskaya is the happiest of grandmothers: Jacek Denel isn’t just a grandson who adores her—he’s also a talented writer. That’s why the reader will be rewarded.
What is a writer’s gift? The ability to see life as literature, and a person as a character. Jacek Denel managed to see something even greater: the book about his grandmother is a book about the HOMELAND. Grandmother Lyaia tells a life that included everything: triumph, catastrophe, and rebirth. It’s not only her life—it's a caravan of astonishing personal stories, from which the fabric of HUMAN HISTORY is woven: the stories of each of us and of the world we live in…