Four generations of women strive to find their way across the twentieth century turbulence of the Ukrainian/Polish city of Lviv. Sloniowska won the Conrad Prize in 2016, and was nominated for the Nike Literary Award that year. *Also appeared in January Buyer's Notes*

Zanna Sloniowska was born in 1978 in Lviv and is a journalist and translator. She now lives in Kraków. She is the first winner of the Znak Publishers' Literary Prize, for which her novel was chosen from among over a thousand entries. In 2016, Zanna Sloniowska won the Conrad Award, the Polish award for first novels.