Shiver. Maletsky Yakub

Jan Labendovich refuses to help the German running in the mid-1940s from Poland, and she curses him. Soon, Yan is born a son: a boy with snow -white skin and equally white hair. Meanwhile, the life of other parents changes the explosion of a grenade left after the war. And soon the stories of the two families are forever united when a girl, mutilated in the fire, and Albino, who sees the river of the dead. Thus begins a “trembling”, a large-scale saga, covering almost the entire 20th century, from the late 1930s to the mid-2000s, which reflected the whole history of Eastern Europe of the last decades, and the eternal issues of life and death have been weaving with tough realism, piercing lyricism, psychological thriller and gloomy mysticism. Thus begins a novel that has become one of the most high -profile discoveries of Polish literature in recent years.