About the Author & the Book

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 Bukowska’s first novel is the stream of consciousness of a very young man who goes through the gateway into the topsy-turvy world of the sensually rampant Love Zone. An extravaganza of images and metaphors from dreams and visions, this is a 17-year-old’s surprisingly mature view of a reality that imperceptibly starts to lose its contours.

This novel began with the first and last sentences. The rest is just a burst of unbridled imagination.

Paulina Bukowska has been writing almost from the day she was born, which means for the past seventeen years. A fan of Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch, uncontaminated by the literary world, she hasn’t yet had the chance to read the works of Gombrowicz, Schulz or Kubin – it’s scary to think what she’ll start writing once she does. She is the rebel spirit of young literature, with a highly original imagination that in 2006 was recognised by the jury in the “Creative Valley” competition organised by the TVP television channel, awarding the then 16-year-old Bukowska second prize for short fiction. On the insistence of her friends, she then sent an extract to the Kraków-based publisher, Znak, where none of the editors could believe it was the work of a teenager…

Paulina Bukowska describes herself as inspired by the muse of a pseudo-writer, resulting in lots of poems and stories. She gets her inspiration from life and the world, which, as she says, “if it weren’t the way it is, I would write about anything, from cabbages to kings”.