9 PB B FORMAT – ANDRZEJ STASIUK-BILL JOHNSTON

Pawel, a young Polish businessman, is in trouble; in debt to loan sharks his only hope lies with former friends, many of whom are now prominent in Warsaw s drug-dealing underground. Embarking on a desperate fool s-gold chase through the city s grimy apartments and creaking transport system Pawel struggles for survival as part of a generation adrift in moral space and disconnected from family, neighbours and friends. Nine is a brilliant novel from one of Europe s finest writers: both an existential crime novel and a major work of literature.