Pages 57-82 Summary

In "Poland," Silvana is enjoying her life as an urban wife. One morning she wakes up in pain; her water had broken. Janusz had already left for work, so she stumbles down the stairs to try to get to the doctor's home. She manages to get downstairs and neighbors in her building bring her into their home. She gives birth to her son on their floor. She feared that she would have her mother's bad luck and that her son would die. She loved him more than anything the moment she laid eyes on him and worried thoughts ran through her mind. Janusz wants to name him after his father, Aurek. In Janusz's section of this chapter, Franek and Bruno join him in the cabin for a meal. While Bruno and Janusz talk, Franek is outside trying to kill a chicken...