{"product_id":"eleven-inch-hardcover","title":"Eleven-Inch - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichal Witkowski\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eW. Martin\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat does it take to succeed as a queer teenage Eastern European sex worker in the 1990s? Eleven inches and a ruthless attitude.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Western Europe, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall: Two queer teens from Eastern Europe journey to Vienna, then Zurich, in search of a better life as sex workers. They couldn't be more different from each other. Milan, aka Dianka, a dreamy, passive naïf from Slovakia, drifts haplessly from one abusive sugar daddy to the next, whereas Michal, a sanguine pleasure-seeker from Poland, quickly masters the selfishness and ruthlessness that allow him to succeed in the wild, capitalist West--all the while taking advantage of the physical endowment for which he is dubbed \"Eleven-Inch.\" By turns impoverished and flush with their earnings, the two traverse a precarious new world of hustler bars, public toilets, and nights spent sleeping in train stations and parks or in the opulent homes of their wealthy clients. With campy wit and sensuous humor, Michal Witkowski explores in \u003ci\u003eEleven-Inch\u003c\/i\u003e the transition from Soviet-style communism to neoliberal capitalism in Europe through the experiences of the most marginalized: destitute queers.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichal Witkowski\u003c\/b\u003e is a Polish author. His groundbreaking novel \u003ci\u003eLovetown \u003c\/i\u003ewas the first explicitly queer novel to be published in Polish and was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2011. He lives in Warsaw. \u003cb\u003eW. Martin\u003c\/b\u003e is a United States-born editor, educator, translator, and writer who lives in Berlin and Ramallah. His published translations from Polish include Michal Witkowski's \u003ci\u003eLovetown\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 06, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767677452576,"sku":"9780857428912","price":24.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/4b38527f4b51e06c7e48a53ab682ba2e.webp?v=1780315079","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/eleven-inch-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}