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Eleven pieces of reportage about tangled lives in late-1990s Poland. A boy with no eyelids, eyebrows or ears is loved madly by two adoptive mothers who are twins. A girl runs away to a yoga ashram and dies there. An adopted son meets the twin brother he never knew, identical in everything but his sexuality. Other pieces concern the mountaineer Wanda Rutkiewicz and her mother, a friend of the poet Edward Stachura, and a would-be monk killed by an earthquake in Assisi.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

209 pages in the original

Set in

Poland, 1990s

First published

2000 by Znak

Author's age

31 when first published

ISBN

9788370067274 (original)