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Artur Domosławski "Wykluczeni" I had this privilege to meet author when I came to his meeting promoting his newest book "The Excluded". I wish I had read his book before that, so I could have asked some interesting questions. Nonetheless I got back home with his autograph. His style and the stories themselves made my reading short and intensive. The author takes us to many poor places where different people, nations or social groups have been excluded from the democratic areas of the civic societies. He shows social and historical backgrounds in which this exclusion was rooted and growing to reach this pathological level . We are led to the poorest areas of South America, to favelas and small villages in the agricultural provinces. We can see different groups people used by drug traffic, prostitution, slave-type work and forced to leave their homes in search for work and better life. We follow author's travel to places where people are harassed because of th...

Simon Sebag Montefiore "Jerusalem. The biography" A half of this fascinating book I had read in English, until I had shared with my father what interesting I had been reading. To my astonishment my father told me that he had already read it and gave me a volume in Polish. So I turned into my mother's language. There are some notes I did of the English version. First of all Preface makes a breathtaking introduction showing the history of Jerusalem as an pattern of the whole World history. This piece of land, recognized as the Holy City carries the burdens and tragedy of all humanity throughout the centuries. The history of Jerusalem is the history of the world... with this statement the book begins. But this is a peculiar way of writing on history, "In Jerusalem, the truth is often much less important than the myth. “In Jerusalem, don’t ask me the history of facts,” says the eminent Palestinian historian Dr. Nazmi al-Jubeh. “Take away the fction and the...