Poland Author:James A Mitchener The tense opening chapter of this forceful & timely novel is set in the fall of 1981 in Bukowo, a small village on the Vistula River in southeast Poland. Here an important meeting has been called for a group of militant farmers, led by Janko Buk, to present their grievances & demands to the Minister of Agriculture, Szymon Bulowski, and other Com... more »munist officials. When the farmers insist that the local Catholic bishop join the discussion, Warsaw orders a 4 week adjournment. The final champter is a continuation of the first.« less