{"product_id":"all-backs-were-turned-paperback","title":"All Backs Were Turned - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarek Hlasko\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTomasz Mirkowicz\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHlasko 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 \u003ci\u003eStation Eleven\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLast Night in Montreal\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Singer's Gun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlowtorch of a novel . . . matchless and prescient.--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpokesman for those who were angry and beat . . . turbulent, temperamental, and tortured.--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA self-taught writer with an uncanny gift for narrative and dialogue . . . a born rebel and troublemaker of immense charm.--Roman Polanski\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarek Hlasko\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarek Hlasko: Marek Hlasko, known as the Polish James Dean, was born 1933. He was known for his brutal prose style and unflinching eye. Persecuted by the Polish government, Hlasko spent the last decade of his life in exile, and died in 1969 of an overdose of sleeping pills and alcohol in Wiesbaden, West Germany. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTomasz Mirkowicz: Tomasz Mirkowicz, translator of American and British fiction, was born in Warsaw in 1953. He translated into Polish the works of Ken Kesey, George Orwell, Jerzy Kosinski, Harry Matthews, Robert Coover, Alan Sillitoe and Charles Bukowski. Mirkowicz, also a fiction writer and critic, died in 2003. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 140\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 09, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769878118688,"sku":"9781939931122","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2ab8c5abd787f65a8300779038b4773c.webp?v=1780358908","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/all-backs-were-turned-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}