Welsh describes peripeteia three heroes “Nine” trying to survive in the wild world of post-capitalism, and compares the style Stasiuk ( “precisely as a scalpel, but at the same time moving the imagination”) to writing Hamsuna Knut, Jean Paul Sartre’a, Jean Genet and Franz Kafka. ‘ “Nine” is a significant work of contemporary powieĊciopisarstwa and wykorzenionego drawing a portrait of a young generation niespokojnego Eastern Europeans, as well as a portrait of the city, which slowly accepts postkomunizm looking color other than advertising – and concludes Welsh Notes: – This book is certainly zaskarbi Stasiukowi many admirers in the U.S. and with a bit of luck will open the way for other translations of the most exciting literature of this region of Europe. “
Reviews in magazines publishing industry is also full of superlatives. “This book offers a sobering picture of the new face of Central Europe through the narrative, which is the same vision, maturity and memory full of despair” – we read in “Publishers Weekly”. But there are also ambivalent assessment. “Stasiuk’s writing technique is truly worthy of the master, and the author of the first page to last precisely maintains the atmosphere of threat and fear – we read in the industry” Kirkus Review “. – But the ultimate effect of these treatments seem tedious repetition”.
