Escape

About the Book

The beginning of the story takes place during the times of the Polish People's Republic in the early seventies. The heroine, after her parent’s divorce, lives in solitude then gets to know a local gangster, whom she marries. She’s going through hell with him. She is beaten, battered, and threatened by him. A daughter is born to them. Heroine decides to escape the nightmare that she’s living in, but shortly the gangster finds her. Upon another beating, where he has a broken jaw and teeth, she makes another attempt to escape. There is no other way but to leave the country, where the gangster’s power does not reach. This time takes place during strict “communism” and the implementation of such a plan border near to a miracle. It was impossible to have her husband sign a consent form for their daughter to leave. But in some remarkable way she manages to complete all the formalities for the trip which leads her to a refugee camp in Italy. She spends a year there and then emigrates to Canada. She meets a millionaire whom she dumps for a young and poor man whom she falls in love with. She begins to successfully build a real estate business but after few months, it is ruined by her husband. After losing all their property, they decide to move the whole family to South Korea. In Seoul, the heroine's husband gets a job as an English teacher at a local university. The heroine quickly establishes relations with various embassies, and she opens her own company. She has great business and financial successes. With all her successes in the field of business, she fails in her private life. Her husband cheats on her notoriously, while being jealous of his wife's successes. Travels between Poland and Korea unable to decide whether to leave Asia or not. After another betrayal of her husband who is putting her to jail for trespassing of their own house, and a painful divorce, she decides to return to Poland.

About the Author

Escaping from a difficult childhood and youth different from her peers, as a teenager, she married a local gangster. At the time, she did not realize the consequences of this decision. During the communist era in Poland, she managed to escape the country to the West, breaking free from the clutches of a criminal. She ended up in a refugee camp in Italy. Having received permission to go to America, she went to Canada. The book tells the story of a lonely, brave young lady whose life is constant mistakes, running away from men and the pursuit of happiness. It is about a Polish woman whose home was where she hung her hat: in Poland, Italy, Canada, Korea, the United States, Georgia, and Mongolia. With the love of her life, she went to South Korea, where she spent fifteen years in Seoul. She transformed from an immigrant into a businesswoman. Unfortunately, life did not allow her to enjoy happiness for a long time. She experienced a dramatic divorce. Once again, she fled, this time to her homeland, to survive numerous ups and downs. She achieved great success in the field of business. She participated in private meetings with presidents from three different countries and celebrities around the world. She went to Georgia and once again got married. When she went on vacation, she stayed for months when she fell in love with the place. She got to know Mongolia, the land of shamans and eternal snow, and she has traveled across America, Asia, and Africa. The author describes her strengths and weaknesses, great love, and loneliness, which she experienced since childhood. In her life, she experienced wealth, wonderful times, incredible sex, unforgettable adventuress, lofty feelings, and uncovering secrets, not only of the body but also of the soul and philosophy. Her intention in subsequent books is to convince readers that life does not end after fifty; it only begins. The author, despite being sixty-five years old, does not intend to retire at all. On the contrary, she wants to live life to the fullest, and she has many fascinating plans for the future. She intends to visit places where she has not been yet and fulfill dreams she has not managed to realize so far. This is the message she wants to share in her following books.