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The Painted Bird by Jerzy KosinskiPublisher: Bantam (1976)Paperback4.1 x 7 inches, 213 pagesJerzy Kosinski (June 14, 1933 – May 3, 1991), born Józef Lewinkopf, was a Polish-American novelist and two-time President of the American Chapter of P.E.N., who wrote primarily in English. Born in Poland, he survived World War II and, as a young man, immigrated to the U.S., where he became a citizen.He was known for various novels, among them The Painted Bird (1965) and Being There (1970), which were adapted as films in 1979 and 2019.-----------------------The Painted Bird, Kosinski's controversial 1965 novel, is a fictional account that depicts the personal experiences of a boy of unknown religious and ethnic background who wanders around unidentified areas of Eastern Europe during World War II and takes refuge among a series of people, many of whom are brutally cruel and abusive, either to him or to others.Soon after the book was published in the US, Kosinski was accused by the then-Communist Polish…
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