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From the publisher:

Jerzy Pilch's novel is entirely autobiographical and is a kind of vademecum of the drunken ups and downs of the protagonist, an insomniac alcoholic. Reaching the mystical edges of a cheerful childhood, stringing together the "frontline" stories of "comrades-in-arms", combining the funny with the tragic, the realistic with the bizarre, the grotesque, the extremely ironic with the extremely serious, Pilch, a great master of storytelling, leads his hero through all the circles of alcoholic hell in the rhythm of the drunken dance of death to snatch him from the claws of addiction.