Zanna Sloniowska was born in 1978 in Lviv and is a journalist and translator. She now lives in Krakow. 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.
This story could only have happened in Ukraine. And then again it could have happened anywhere, because the blood on the blue-and-yellow flag is just the beginning of an intimate tale about four generations of women. - Zwierciadlo.A moving, incisive saga about women entangled by historical events. - Newsweek Polska.Sloniowska is a fascinating story-teller who also gives insight into the reality of life in Ukraine. This is an astonishing literary discovery. - Polityka.A city of women's mysteries, and History, which the author constantly re-interprets. Zanna Sloniowska surprises and seduces. - Krytycznym Okiem.The House with the Stained-Glass Window is remarkable, a gripping, Lvivian evocation of a city and a family across a long and painful century, at once personal and political, a novel of life and survival across the ages - Philippe SandsThis novel was written as a challenge to crushing, cruel history; it arose from a desire to give a voice to the individual experiences of women. But at a certain point it turns in a direction contrary to its original ambitions, and the counter-history disappears in the fog of exploding smoke grenades. - Gazeta Wyborcza.
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