MORFINA (Morphine)

God?
Honour?
Homeland?

Morphine!

Konstanty Willemann, a Varsovian but the son of a German aristocrat and a Polonised Silesian woman, does not care much for patriotic slogans and traditions sanctified by the blood of heroic soldiers. He is a cynic, a scoundrel and a bon-vivant. An unfaithful husband and a bad father.

Konstanty reluctantly takes part in the September Campaign, and after its defeat he unwillingly joins a secret organisation. He doesn’t want to be Polish, he doesn’t want to be German. All he wants is to get another bottle of morphine and live his old life as a man-about-town and womaniser.

However, it is impossible to escape from history.

In Morfina, Szczepan Twardoch has achieved something rare in Polish prose – he has created an anti-hero who is impossible not to like. 

A crazy, trancey and daring novel.

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