As bleak a vision of life in communist Poland in the 1950s as you're likely to encounter, *The Eighth Day of the Week* is a stunningly effective little novel. Jostled with Agniezka by the dantean hordes of drunks on the sidewalks of Warsaw, the reader descends into a world that is hellish, absurd, maddening, comic, and ultimately almost inescapably fatal to the human spirit. Discouraging, depressing, painful--all these things the novel is, but in the end it is also an exhilarating work of art.
- ISBN10 0436200392
- ISBN13 9780436200397
- Publish Date 13 May 1991 (first published 24 March 1975)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 December 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 120
- Language English