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Summary

Set in the early 1950's, during the time of Stalin's Personality Cult. The story opens in a provincial town. Tomek's father, a former member of the Home Army is arrested, leaving his mother with th...

Set in the early 1950's, during the time of Stalin's Personality Cult. The story opens in a provincial town. Tomek's father, a former member of the Home Army is arrested, leaving his mother with the task of raising two children by herself. The neighbor upstairs commits suicide when her husband is also arrested and transported to the prison camp. The teachers at school are ideologues who teach the students propaganda. One day, they ask the students who among them goes to church on Sundays; the whole class stands up to defeat the purpose of the propaganda lesson. Tomek is sent to the training school in the summer. There he absorbs most of the ideology pumped into his head, and when his father is released from prison he finds a different boy than the one left.

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