Nine

　　From the Publisher Pawel, a young businessman in debt to loan sharks, wakes up one April morning in a sea of debris, broken glass, ripped upholstery, and clothes spilling out of the wardrobe.

　　He turns to two friends for help: Boklek, 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 hostille 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　　Here Andrzej Stasiuk portrays a generation of Poles, freed from outdated ideologies but left feeling adrift and disconnected from family, neighbors, and friends.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 Stasiul as a major voice in European literature.