8th Day of the Week
Contributors: Norbert Guterman (Translator)
Publisher: Secker Warburg
Published: May 1991
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780436200397
Subjects: Modern fiction
Description: As bleak a vision of life in communist Poland in the 1950s as you're likely to encounter, *The Eighth Day of the Week* is a stunningly effective little novel.  Jostled with Agniezka by the dantean hordes of drunks on the sidewalks of Warsaw, the reader descends into a world that is hellish, absurd, maddening, comic, and ultimately almost inescapably fatal to the human spirit.  Discouraging, depressing, painful--all these things the novel is, but in the end it is also an exhilarating work of art.