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Highcastle: A Remembrance

By Stanislaw Lem, Michael Kandel (Translator)
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By Stanislaw Lem, Michael Kandel (Translator)
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A playful, witty, reflective memoir of childhood by the science fiction master Stanislaw Lem.

With Highcastle , Stanislaw Lem offers a memoir of his childhood and youth in prewar Lvov. Reflective, artful, witty, playful—“I was a monster,” he observes ruefully—this lively and charming book describes a youth spent reading voraciously (he was especially interested in medical texts and French novels), smashing toys, eating pastries, and being terrorized by insects. Often lonely, the young Lem...

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