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Sean Gasper Bye on Did This Hand Kill? by Cezary Łazarewicz
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Sean Gasper Bye on Did This Hand Kill? by Cezary Łazarewicz

Jess Jensen Mitchell
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Lara Norgaard
Jul 30, 2024
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In this episode, Sean Gasper Bye discusses his 2024 translation of Cezary Łazarewicz's true crime thriller, Did This Hand Kill? (Open Letter Books). This historic who dun’ it explores Rita Gorgonowa’s sensational murder trial, a media event that scandalized interwar Poland. Just as the reader visits the lost world of Lwów, they are left wondering who really killed Gorgonowa's de facto stepdaughter on a cold December's night in 1931…

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