《垃圾鎮》是富創意的專輯，透過文字和圖像讓我們意識到我們如何在日常中污染自己的星球：「太多人每天製造太多垃圾，我們製造的速度太快，分解卻非常緩慢。」作者以此二具體的句子開始其工作，一步步讓我們意識到塑料包裝的過度使用對地球狀態的影響。
這本書由簡短的章節組成，作者以簡單方式，簡要且具體地展現出我們如何毒害地球，以及要怎麼做來拯救地球。 亞歷珊德拉·沃丹斯卡-波欽斯卡是獲認可的插畫家，圖像也正是本出版品的主要優勢，全頁彩色插圖肯定能吸引年輕讀者，甚至可能比文字更有效。 書中的每個插頁幾乎都可製成海報，鼓舞人們按照零廢棄運動的理念生活。 訊息非常具體，語言通俗易懂，卻也不乏能激發好奇心的要素。 這些建議看似理所當然，然而最簡單的事情卻最難做到，這也正是本書讓我們意識到的，邁出一小步就可以讓世界變得更美好。 (M.L.G.)
亞歷珊德拉·沃丹斯卡-波欽斯卡（1985年）：平面造型設計師、插畫家、童書作者，因《螞蟻要結婚》一書的插圖而獲PTWK 2019年的年度最美圖書競賽的獎項。
《垃圾鎮，零廢棄》，亞歷珊德拉·沃丹斯卡-波欽斯卡，Papilon出版社，波茲南2019年。
Selected samples
She climbed her first peaks in a headscarf at a time when women in the mountains were treated by climbers as an additional backpack. It was with her that female alpinism began! She gained recognition in a spectacular way. The path was considered a crossing for madmen. Especially since the tragic accident in 1929, preserved … Continue reading “Halina”
First, Marysia, a student of an exclusive private school in Warsaw’s Mokotów district, dies under the wheels of a train. Her teacher, Elżbieta, tries to find out what really happened. She starts a private investigation only soon to perish herself. But her body disappears, and the only people who have seen anything are Gniewomir, a … Continue reading “Wound”
A young girl, Regina Wieczorek, was found dead on the beach. She was nineteen years old and had no enemies. Fortunately, the culprit was quickly found. At least, that’s what the militia think. Meanwhile, one day in November, Jan Kowalski appears at the police station. He claims to have killed not only Regina but also … Continue reading “Penance”
The year is 1922. A dangerous time of breakthrough. In the Eastern Borderlands of the Republic of Poland, Bolshevik gangs sow terror, leaving behind the corpses of men and disgraced women. A ruthless secret intelligence race takes place between the Lviv-Warsaw-Free City of Gdańsk line. Lviv investigator Edward Popielski, called Łysy (“Hairless”), receives an offer … Continue reading “A Girl with Four Fingers”
This question is closely related to the next one, namely: if any goal exists, does life lead us to that goal in an orderly manner? In other words, is everything that happens to us just a set of chaotic events that, combined together, do not form a whole? To understand how the concept of providence … Continue reading “Order and Love”
The work of Józef Łobodowski (1909-1988) – a remarkable poet, prose writer, and translator, who spent most of his life in exile – is slowly being revived in Poland. Łobodowski’s brilliant three- volume novel, composed on an epic scale, concerns the fate of families and orphans unmoored by the Bolshevik Revolution and civil war and … Continue reading “Ukrainian Trilogy: Thickets, The Settlement, The Way Back”
