Prymityw. Epopeja narodowa

On Warsaw's poorer east bank of the Vistula live pimps, petty hustlers, the regulars and owners of cheap bars, failed writers, businessmen with theories about everything, people on benefits and new arrivals from the villages of Masuria, mostly drunk and swollen with patriotism. The country around them is a thinly disguised Poland of the 2010s: a plane carrying the elite has fallen, a sect holds monthly vigils beneath a cross, the ruling Party has done away with time, letting the nation's dead heroes mingle with the living, and a young man named Bożydar Jałowy is voted president. Characters such as Robert Poczęty blame every setback on Jews, Germans and refugees. Instead of a single plot the book moves through scenes and inner monologues, told in a warped street Polish stuffed with tabloid, television and political jargon.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

492 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Poland

First published

2018 by Wielka Litera

Author's age

45 when first published

ISBN

9788380322424 (original)