Love at First Sight |
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| Author:
| Szymborska, Wislawa |
| Illustrator:
| Queirazza, Beatrice Gasca |
| ISBN: | 978-1-64421-223-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2023 |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $39.99 |
Book Description:
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Love at First Sight is a beautiful poem about love and chance and destiny by the 1996 Polish winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Illustrated by Italian artist Beatrice Gasca Queirazza, Szymborska's poem comes to life in entirely new ways for her readers and for lovers everywhere in this oversized book perfect for gift giving. Szymborska tells of two young lovers bound together in an instant - or were they? As the poem unfolds, the reader's assumptions - like those of the lovers...
More DescriptionLove at First Sight is a beautiful poem about love and chance and destiny by the 1996 Polish winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Illustrated by Italian artist Beatrice Gasca Queirazza, Szymborska's poem comes to life in entirely new ways for her readers and for lovers everywhere in this oversized book perfect for gift giving. Szymborska tells of two young lovers bound together in an instant - or were they? As the poem unfolds, the reader's assumptions - like those of the lovers themselves - about certainty and destiny are utterly upended, revealing the paradox and mystery of fate. Here is randomness, tricks of memory, and chance, where noticing the smallest details of our intertwined lives is more essential than asking, Are we meant for each other? 'Every beginning / is only a sequel, after all...'