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After thirty-six years in Copenhagen, a Polish scholar bearing the author's name loses his job at a Danish institute over an article on Kierkegaard's antisemitism. The only work the job centre can offer is 'death's assistant': companion to a dying old man of unclear identity, probably a Pole. Night after night he talks to him, about his family, his communist father and his mother who hid her Jewish origins, about his youth in Poland, about Denmark as he sees it, and about the cartoons of Muhammad, and the monologue becomes an indictment of European democracy.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

504 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Migration, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Denmark, Poland

First published

2007 by Wydawnictwo W.A.B.

Author's age

61 when first published

ISBN

9788374142526 (original)