About the book: 1954 / The novel "Rivers are Burning" covers the enormous historical events of 1941–1945. The dependence of each person on the solution of great common issues is becoming more and more tangible. The fate of individual people clearly appears as part of the common fate of individual peoples and all humanity. Wanda Wasilewska depicts in this novel the complex and difficult process of changing the political consciousness of people of various strata of the old Polish society, the process of turning these people into builders and citizens of the new, people's democratic Poland.