Description: "I Came Home and There Was No One There is a composition of two titles in a single volume for readers in English."--CIP galley.
Brief description: Hanka Grupińska is a writer and teacher. In the 1980s she collaborated with underground newspapers and was one of the co-founders of the Poznań-based quarterly Czas Kultury, for which she wrote, translated, and edited texts. In the 1990s she lived in Israel, where she was cultural attaché at the Polish embassy, and spent six years gathering material for her book on Hasidic women, Najtrudniej jest spotkac Lilit (currently in translation under the working title Lilith Among the Storks). For several years, Grupińska worked on documenting the history of the extermination of the Jews and is the author of several non-fiction volumes on the Holocaust. She has spent the last decade observing the vicissitudes of the Tibetan people, which captured in her volume Dalekowysoko. Tybetańczycy bez ziemi (Highupandfaraway: Landless Tibetans). She occasionally teaches creative writing classes at universities and colleges in Warsaw.