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Category: Polish Fiction

Empuzjon (The Empusium) by Olga Tokarczuk (2022)

This eerie horror story is set in a secluded health resort in 1913 Silesia. In September, young Polish engineering student mieczyslaw wojnicz arrives at görbersdorf, a village popular among tuberculosis patients. Wojnicz, having always had fragile health, is sent there by his father in hopes of a cure. He stays at a guesthouse run by […]