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Nine is a brilliant novel from one of Europe's finest writers. It tells of a post-communist generation of young Poles among whom the strictures of the old collide daily with the freedom of the new, adrift in moral space and disconnected from family, neighbours, and friends. It is the story of Pawel, a young businessman, in debt to loan sharks, seeking help from former friends, many of whom are now prominent in the city's drug-dealing underground. And of Warsaw, a hostile landscape of apartment blocks, factories, and suburban wastelands, 'a city that at nine-thirty goes to ground, coming to a halt, and giving time to those who have nothing to do.' In prose that is at once colloquial and lyrical, Stasiuk portrays a people in transition and a nation in the re-making. In the process, he has created an existential crime novel as well as a major work of art.
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`Stasiuk is undoubtedly a gifted writer'. -- Time Out
'One of the most original voices to emerge from post-Communist
Poland...The bleak, scary city, with its sooty snow, concrete tower blocks
and reek of coal dust, is very powerfully evoked'
-- The Times
'The cult Polish writer Andrzej Stasiuk explores the hostile
landscape of Warsaw's criminal underworld: its loan sharks, drug-dealers
and drifters.'
-- London Review of Books
'The writing is intensely atmospheric...brooding, beguiling,
memorable...a serious novel about politics, society, doing what one must;
it approaches the intellect via the senses.'
-- TLS
'impressive for the quality of its prose... a rewarding despatch
from a country undergoing enormous change'
-- Metro - Rev'd Claire Allfree
`...crisp, cool prose is excellent at evoking the nihilism of the
society... poeticising the mundane.'
-- The Leeds Guide
`Nine somehow merges the lyrical inwardness of a modernist urban
prose-poet such as Woolf or Joyce with hard-bitten underworld
suspense...studded with hauntingly graceful and tender passages. If
Quentin Tarantino mutated into a Polish literary novelist his work might
resemble Nine.'
-- The Independent
`a brilliantly written, if dark and sombre, tale of life in Warsaw in the nineties...a must read'
-- Evening Herald
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'One of the most original voices to emerge from post-Communist
Poland...The bleak, scary city, with its sooty snow, concrete tower blocks
and reek of coal dust, is very powerfully evoked'
-- The Times
'The cult Polish writer Andrzej Stasiuk explores the hostile
landscape of Warsaw's criminal underworld: its loan sharks, drug-dealers
and drifters.'
-- London Review of Books
'The writing is intensely atmospheric...brooding, beguiling,
memorable...a serious novel about politics, society, doing what one must;
it approaches the intellect via the senses.'
-- TLS
'impressive for the quality of its prose... a rewarding despatch
from a country undergoing enormous change'
-- Metro - Rev'd Claire Allfree
`...crisp, cool prose is excellent at evoking the nihilism of the
society... poeticising the mundane.'
-- The Leeds Guide
`Nine somehow merges the lyrical inwardness of a modernist urban
prose-poet such as Woolf or Joyce with hard-bitten underworld
suspense...studded with hauntingly graceful and tender passages. If
Quentin Tarantino mutated into a Polish literary novelist his work might
resemble Nine.'
-- The Independent
`a brilliantly written, if dark and sombre, tale of life in Warsaw in the nineties...a must read'
-- Evening Herald
Nine is an existential crime novel as well as a major work of art.
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- PublisherHarvill Secker
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0436206366
- ISBN 13 9780436206368
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages240
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