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Deep in debt to loan sharks, Pawel, a desperate young businessman, turns for help to two friends, both outsiders in the post-Communist wasteland of Warsaw--ex-coal miner-turned-drug dealer Bolek and Jacek, an addict on the run. Reprint.
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Review:
"One of a number of cult writers to have emerged from post-communist central Europe... Stasiuk's prose has the easy flow of Kerouac's" (New Statesman)
"Politicises the everyday so compellingly that it calls to mind the greatest work of John McGahern" (Joseph O'Connor)
"A blistering existential thriller of dodgy deals and foresaken ideals" (Boyd Tonkin Independent)
"Harnessing the shape-shifting, paranoid ambience of Kafka, not as a means to pass comment on totalitarianism but on the void (political and social) created in its wake ... impressive for the quality of its prose (Stasiuk is fantastic at listless, urban desolation)...a rewarding despatch from a country undergoing enormous change" (Claire Allfree Metro)
"Paints a vivid and disturbing picture of contemporary life in Poland...offers a sobering vision of the new face of central Europe in a narrative that is at once hallucinatory, haunting and abject" (Publishers Weekly)
From the Publisher:
"Politicises the everyday so compellingly that it calls to mind the greatest work of John McGahern" (Joseph O'Connor)
"A blistering existential thriller of dodgy deals and foresaken ideals" (Boyd Tonkin Independent)
"Harnessing the shape-shifting, paranoid ambience of Kafka, not as a means to pass comment on totalitarianism but on the void (political and social) created in its wake ... impressive for the quality of its prose (Stasiuk is fantastic at listless, urban desolation)...a rewarding despatch from a country undergoing enormous change" (Claire Allfree Metro)
"Paints a vivid and disturbing picture of contemporary life in Poland...offers a sobering vision of the new face of central Europe in a narrative that is at once hallucinatory, haunting and abject" (Publishers Weekly)
Nine is an existential crime novel as well as a major work of art.
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- PublisherMariner Books
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0156033542
- ISBN 13 9780156033541
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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