In the Heart of Warsaw: An Autobiographical Novel

In 1928, a young man has just discovered the devastating truths of his mother's disappearance four years earlier. So begins a dramatic and emotional tale of one man's life—trade union strikes in Poland before the war; spring Warsaw nights where he finds love; the arduous trek in the winter of 1942 through Russia in search of his father who had disappeared in the First World War, and their bittersweet reunion. In the Heart of Warsaw is the long-awaited sequel to When Paupers Dance, Renglich's poignant coming-of-age story set in the ghettos of Lublin and Warsaw in Poland before World War II.