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Nine

By Andrzej Stasiuk

Hardcover | 9780436206368

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It is the story of Pawel, a young businessman. He is in debt to loan sharks and seeking help from former friends, many of whom are now prominent in the city's drug-dealing underground. It is also the story of Warsaw, a hostile landscape of apartment blocks, factories and suburban wastelands, 'a cityContinue

It is the story of Pawel, a young businessman. He is in debt to loan sharks and seeking help from former friends, many of whom are now prominent in the city's drug-dealing underground. It is also the story of Warsaw, a hostile landscape of apartment blocks, factories and suburban wastelands, 'a city that at nine-thirty goes to ground, coming to a halt, and giving time to those who have nothing to do'.

Nine tells of a post-communist generation of young Poles for whom the strictures of the old collide daily with the freedom of the new, adrift in moral space and disconnected from family, neighbours and friends.

In prose that is at once colloquial and lyrical, Stasiuk portrays a people in transistion and a nation in the re-making. In the process, he has created an existential crime novel as well as a major work of art.

Critics

  • Warsaw Underground

    The Poles, probably more than any other Europeans, must feel they deserve a little peace, freedom and prosperity. Sandwiched between the neighbors from hell (Germany, Russia), they were at the back of the line when the late 20th century dispensed its ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

  • Book review: Andrzej Stasiuk's *Nine*

    Nine Andrzej Stasiuk Harcourt Hardcover 240 pages May 2007 Nine was translated to English from the original Polish, and something must have been lost in translation. The plot is difficult to decipher; it appears to be about some men who owe money to ... (read full critics)

    curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

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