Timeless, popular all over the world, recognized as one of the most important contemporary Polish novels. Awarded with the prestigious international Brücke Berlin-Preis.

When the protagonist moves into a house at the foot of the Sudetes in the border town of Nowa Ruda, she and the surrounding area begin to learn about the stories of the inhabitants. The life of Saint Kummernis, the story of a German family displaced years ago, the events of the life of wigwoman Marta and other neighbors - each of these stories helps her understand the place where she settled, but most of all allows her to discover new dimensions of reality. Reality on the border of waking and dreaming, common to all of us, regardless of the times and places in which we live.

"Amazing reading. Wonderfully inventive, alternately comic, tragic and wise ”.
"The Observer"

“All the elements of this novel have been perfectly composed to express the beliefs underlying it: that life is multifaceted, elusive and full of mysteries; that the boundaries between wakefulness and sleep, between day and night are fluid; that hidden connections and meanings can only be sensed but never grasped. "
The Missouri Review

The audiobook is read by Olga Tokarczuk.

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