Kass is a clever poet; he knows the paths to lead the reader down to interesting places

Exposing mechanisms that sentence individuals to isolation, loneliness, insanity or even damnation

Reflections on solidarity – understood both as a universal experience and as the Polish social movement

A masterful work on the upiórs – the primeval Slavic vampires who have haunted Polish literature and history for centuries

Class divisions and economic violence in legendary world

Full-blooded novel with a generous helping of 20th-century history of Silesia