The Whales Fly
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Tłum. The Whales Fly
Rights: World
Maya and Jon are teenagers. They are in love and believe that they will be a family, have a daughter and a house on the cliff . In their dreams they even see a cat that reads books. They believe that their love cannot be destroyed by the fact that they have to part in order to go to two different universities in faraway towns. However, an unexpected accident turns their world upside down. Literally that. In the mysterious land of Peronia, a country full of endless railway tracks, where people hunt trains and their lives are described by Stamps, a legendary Old Woman handles Jon a mysterious box. The boy does not know what is going on and where he suddenly got to. He knows one thing: he wants to get Maya back. In order to do that Jon will experience most extraordinary adventures. He will have to escape from Dókxs and his beast called Horda, catch Poshin, conquer the Shirtpeople and save the life of a girl named Iri, who will eventually win his heart. At the end of the journey Jon will fi nd the answer to the question whether his dream may come true and whether he will be able to save his love.
About the author:
Aleksander Kościów (b. 1974) is a composer and viola-player. He lectures in counter-point composition and musical theory at the Warsaw Academy of Music. Kościów debuted in 2006 with the novel “Swiat nura” ( The World of the Diver ) and instantly showed himself to be an uncommonly mature writer, gifted with a rare kind of imagination, who already in his first book proved capable of creating an original and complete world. The World of the Diver is a multilayered, Chinese box of a novel, combining elements of pulp and high-brow fiction, fantasy and realism. His second novel “Przepros” (Apologise) poses some important questions about the nature of the world we happen to live in and about major life choices and their dependency on common sense and reason or maybe intuition.
