Published on the 28th August 2025 by Pushkin Press

Though he returned from America penniless, Nathan Stramer still daydreams of a better life. Raising six children with his wife Rywka in a poor area of Tarnów, he chases hare-brained schemes to make money while she fantasises about a trip to the seaside.

Meanwhile, their children are taking steps out into a changing world. Rudek, the eldest, sets his passions aside for a practical job; Rena falls in love with a married man, and Hesio and Salek get ever more involved with Communism.

While Nathan and Rywka try to hold the centre of their raucous family life, national conflicts begin to escalate, and something sinister creeps into the Stramers’ world that they don’t yet understand.

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My Name is Stramer by Mikolaj Lozinski | 9781805332138 | Pushkin Press

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Reviews

Mikolaj Lozinski shows that ordinary people’s lives can be as fascinating as a sensational story. A brilliantly written novel!

Olga Tokarczuk, author of ‘Flights’

Lozinski has managed to write a novel we don’t want to finish, we want to keep living in the Stramers’ world. The protagonists’ fates lead on, into a different Poland… Marvellous

Polityka

With freshness and lively humour… Lozinski crafts an epic that is as gripping as it is endearing