House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk

House of Day, House of Night by Olga TokarczukA woman settles in a remote Polish village. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of its living and its dead. Theres the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that he shares his body with a bird, and Franz Frost, whose nightmares come to him from a newly discovered planet. Theres the man whose death with one leg on the Polish side, one on the Czech was an international incident. And there are the Germans who still haunt a region that not

when someone will die

The disquieting story of an unidentified man as told by those who crossed paths with him on the last day of his life

Esso is running out of time and into trouble

The seemingly serene tale of a woman's pleasant rediscovery of herself soon becomes the story of a ferocious confrontation with an unsettled past

hindrances

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