Secrets and lies: Son goes in search of the ghosts of his father's wartime past
ARRIVING in Glasgow as an immigrant in 1947, the Polish tailor Mateusz Zajac wasn’t quite sure where he was. "I never know such a thing as Scotland," he said decades later in his idiosyncratic English. "It was all England and that was that." Geographical peripheries are often mysterious, hidden or unknown to the outsider, especially ones with larger neighbours. Zajac had to learn quickly about the cultural specifics of the British Isles.
