Noc żywych Żydów

Muranów, Warsaw, in the late 2000s. The narrator, a cynic of about thirty, holds a university degree but lays tiles for a living, and he shares his flat with a woman who is anorexic and hooked on the internet. Money and small comforts fill his thoughts; his life bothers him a little, never enough to make him change it. Then a run of mishaps and strange signs opens a way through to the place where the city's Jews met their fate decades earlier. The ghosts hound and frighten him until he sees he must somehow strike a deal with them, while ever more dead people turn up at his door and the city around him starts to transform.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

252 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Poland

First published

2012 by Wydawnictwo W.A.B.

Author's age

44 when first published

ISBN

9788377477007 (original)