Product Description: Andrzej Stasiuk is a restless and indefatigable traveler. His journeys take him from his native Poland to Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Albania, Moldova, and Ukraine. By car, train, bus, ferry. To small towns and villages with unfamiliar-sounding yet strangely evocative names...read more

Product Description: A Polish Book of Monsters contains five stories of speculative fiction edited and translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel, award-winning translator of the fiction of Stanislaw Lem. From dystopian science fiction to fabled fantasy, these dark tales grip us through the authors' ability to create utterly convincing alien worlds that nonetheless reflect our own...read more

When his mother threatens to scoop him out because he boasted to his classmates, ten-year-old Christopher Zimmerman, the youngest member of a family of aliens, goes on a journey through space, time, and other dimensions to escape his punishment.

The author describes his innocent childhood as the son of a doctor in Lvov between the two world wars, during which his most vivid memories include episodes with his gossipy French tutor, the view from a confectionary store, and halvah stands.

Stories deal with angels, devils, family disagreements, a hidden village, and a grandfather building his own submarine

The narrator thinks back on the story of David Weiser, a mysterious classmate who in 1957 disappeared without a trace

Cliff Koussevitky is eager to take his family away from their irregular world, but to do it he must lead them through greenhouse gasses, nuclear disasters, and post-apocalyptic future malls with the help of space cadet, Captain Jack Zodiac. Original.

The volumes in Mr. McGulvey's library lead Sherman Potts through gateways into one weird and fantastical world after another, but an addition to the library threatens to destroy the entire network of worlds