Marius Kociejowski: 4 books

• Positive American reviews of Marius Kociejowski's previous titles, including Michael Dirda's recent praise for The Pebble Chance in The Washington Post, will increase the exposure of this work by Kociejowski, which stands to be his most accessible work to date. • Several of the pieces...

Marius Kociejowski follows up his now classic The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool with The Pigeon Wars of Damascus. A metaphysical journalist in search of echoes rather than analogies, hints as opposed to verities, Kociejowski discovers once again at the periphery of Damascene society-for the...

"Kociejowski draws on all these aspects of his life in these engaging, idiosyncratic personal essays ... [that] proffer the reader equal measures of autobiography, insight and quirky charm." -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post In the game of bocce, no matter how intensely you study...

The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool chronicles a series of friendships and conversations pursued over ten years with an erratic cast of Syrians that includes Abed, the unemployable ‘street philosopher’ and Sulayman, ‘the holy fool’, alongside Myrna, a Christian healer marked by the stigmata...