"Hlasko was an original. His novels were fearless, his vision
unsparing, and decades later, his darkly brilliant work has lost
none of its power to unsettle. He achieved what few other writers
ever have: he turned the literary landscape into a much more
interesting place than it was when he found it." ----Emily St. John
Mandel, author of Station Eleven, Last Night in Montreal and The
Singer's Gun "Blowtorch of a novel ...matchless and
prescient."--Publishers Weekly "Spokesman for those who were angry
and beat ...turbulent, temperamental, and tortured."--The New York
Times "A self-taught writer with an uncanny gift for narrative and
dialogue ...a born rebel and troublemaker of immense charm."--Roman
Polanski In this novel of breathtaking tension and sweltering love,
two desperate friends on the edge of the law--one of them tough and
gutsy, the other small and scared--travel to the southern Israeli
city of Eilat to find work. There, Dov Ben Dov, the handsome native
Israeli with a reputation for causing trouble, and Israel, his
sidekick, stay with Ben Dov's recently married younger brother,
Little Dov, who has enough trouble of his own. Local toughs are
encroaching on Little Dov's business, and he enlists his older
brother to drive them away. It doesn't help that a beautiful German
widow named Ursula is rooming next door. What follows is a story of
passion, deception, violence, and betrayal, all conveyed in
hardboiled prose reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond
Chandler, with a cinematic style that would make Humphrey Bogart
and Marlon Brando green with envy. Marek Hlasko, known as the James
Dean of Eastern Europe, was exiled from Communist Poland and spent
his life wandering the globe. He died in 1969 of an overdose of
alcohol and sleeping pills in Wiesbaden, Germany.
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