Summary
Jacek Dukaj: Ice - Part 1
In addition to the European Prize for Literature, this grandiose work was crowned with the Polish awards for fiction "Janusz Seidl" and "Jezi Žulawski", and was shortlisted for the prestigious Polish literary award "Nike". Russia. After the famous explosion in Tunguska, a strange ice begins to spread across Siberia, containing its unusual angry inhabitants, the frost angels, which reached all the way to Warsaw. The main character Benedikt Gjeroslavski, a brilliant mathematician and avid gambler, begins to investigate this phenomenon more closely, working for the Ministry of Winter. The plot of this novel is full of astonishing twists, political, love and criminal intrigues, as well as the incredible imagination of the author.
Readers have been patiently waiting for this novel by Jacek Dukaj for a very long time, which is completely understandable when you take into account its epic form and grandiose idea. Rasputin and Nikola Tesla appear among the characters of Ledo, and all this is in the function of putting together a masterfully designed and described alternative world in which history, truth and logic also exist, but in a completely different way.
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