Open Letter

“If laughter actually is the best medicine, fortunate readers of this wonderful novel will surely enjoy perfect health for the rest of their days."—Kirkus ReviewsA comic gem, Jerzy Pilch's A Thousand Peaceful Citiestakes place in 1963, in the latter days of the Polish post-Stalinist “thaw." The narrator, Jerzyk (“little Jerzy"), is a teenager who...

“Pilch's prose is masterful, and the bulk of The Mighty Angel evokes the same numb, floating sensation as a bottle of Zloldkowa Gorzka."—L MagazineThe Mighty Angel concerns the alcoholic misadventures of a writer named Jerzy. Eighteen times he's woken up in rehab. Eighteen times he's been released—a sober and, more or less, healthy man—after...