El regreso: Tiempo no perdido 3

Krakow, 1945. Stefan Trzyniecki -- the young doctor who survived the psychiatric ward at the Transfiguration Hospital and the extermination camp among the dead -- returns to a city devastated by war, covered in rubble and ash, where mutilated facades and empty walls seem to silently echo the irreparable. Around him, a gallery of characters struggles to adapt to the new regime: former resistance fighters, Party bureaucrats, opportunists, survivors who don't know what to do with their lives. Alongside them, Boguslaw Wieleniecki -- a psychologist at the Ministry, torn between loyalty to the Party and the remnants of his conscience -- must decide how far his allegiance extends. The Return brings the Time Not Lost trilogy to a close, and with it, Stanislaw Lem's most intimate and revealing cycle of novels. Beneath the guise of autobiographical fiction, Lem offers a brutal testimony of 20th-century Europe and a profound meditation on identity, memory, and redemption. Written with almost surgical restraint, this devastating novel becomes the final piece of a masterpiece silenced for decades, and which only now, thanks to this edition, can be read in its entirety for the first time.

Pagina's: 352, Editie: Eerste editie, Paperback, Impedimenta