The Peasants

If you enjoy 19th-century classics like Anna Karenina, Germinal or The Brothers Karamazov, have I got the book for you! Set in a Polish farming village in the 1880s with an unforgettable cast of characters, featuring the patriarchal Boryna, the young and reckless Jagusia, the hot-headed Antek and the hard-working Hanka, The Peasants is an intense drama of love, family and identity accompanied by an eternal hymn to the all-powerful, life-giving land. Raw, realistic and beautifully poetic, Reymont's storytelling turns the everyday into an epic of almost mythological grandeur.