Pawel, a young Polish businessman, is in trouble; in debt to loan sharks his only hope lies with former friends, many of whom are now prominent in Warsaw's drug-dealing underground. Embarking on a desperate fool's-gold chase through the city's grimy apartments and creaking transport system Pawel struggles for survival as part of a generation adrift in moral space and disconnected from family, neighbours and friends. Nine is a brilliant novel from one of Europe's finest writers: both an existential crime novel and a major ...
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Pawel, a young Polish businessman, is in trouble; in debt to loan sharks his only hope lies with former friends, many of whom are now prominent in Warsaw's drug-dealing underground. Embarking on a desperate fool's-gold chase through the city's grimy apartments and creaking transport system Pawel struggles for survival as part of a generation adrift in moral space and disconnected from family, neighbours and friends. Nine is a brilliant novel from one of Europe's finest writers: both an existential crime novel and a major work of literature.
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Near fine in near fine jacket; minor softening to jacket edges else a tight square unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket; first printing with "A" in letter string.
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Fine in Fine jacket. New York: Harcourt (2007). First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A clean, tight copy. Comes with mylar dust jacket cover. Fiction-Rear.
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New. No Jacket. Uncorrected Proof. Softbound, plain gray and white illustrated wraps. VERY FINE. A tight clean copy, new and unread, without any marks or defects. Comes with publisher's publicity letter.
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New. No Jacket. Uncorrected Proof. Illustrated wraps. NEW. A fine book, clean and tight, unread, without any marks or defects. Shipped in well padded box. Smoke-free. With publicity materials laid in.
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New York. 2007. May 2007. Harcourt. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780151010646. Translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston. 229 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Jennifer Jackman. Jacket photo by Frank Herholdt. keywords: Literature Poland Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Pawel, a young businessman in debt to loan sharks, wakes up one April morning it a sea of debris, broken glass, ripped upholstery, and clothes spilling out of the wardrobe. He turns to two friends for help: Bolek, a former coal miner, now a drug dealer who lives in tasteless luxury; and Jacek, an addict, who is himself on the run through Warsaw, a washed-out city, a hostile landscape of apartment blocks, railroad stations, wild gardens, factories, and suburban wastelands. Here Andrzej Stasiuk portrays a generation of Poles, freed from outdated ideologies but left feeling adrift and disconnected from family, neighbors, and friends. At once existential crime fiction and a work of art, Nine establishes Stasiuk as a major voice in European literature. inventory #36832.