My First Suicide

Neither strictly a collection of short stories nor a novel, the ten short stories that comprise 'My First Suicide' straddle the line between intimate revelation and drunken confession. The tales within reveal a nostalgic and poetic author, one who can pen a character's lyrical ode to the fate of his father's perfect chess table in one story and examine a teacher's desperate and dangerous infatuation with a student in the next. Translated from Polish by David Frick.