The empusium : a health resort horror story /
September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz's Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Görbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from Polish. |
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New York :
Riverhead Books,
[2024].
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| Edition: | First United States edition. |
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| Summary: | September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz's Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Görbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone or something seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world. Little does the newcomer realize, as he tries to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target. A century after the publication of The Magic Mountain, Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, with signature boldness, inventiveness, humor and bravura. |
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| Item Description: | Translation of: Empuzjon. "Originally published in Poland as Empuzjon, by Wydawnictwo Literackie, Krakow, in 2022"--Title verso. |
| Physical Description: | 300 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780593712948 0593712943 9780593854082 059385408X |