The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk silent tears rolling down his

silent tears rolling down his cheeks

Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans - only no one calls them that

attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world

a deeply moving fable about rejection

She was watched like a hawk by an anxious mother and a silent

The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk silent tears rolling down hisIn September 1913, a young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitzs Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone or