Wretchedness

Download or read book Wretchedness written by Andrzej Tichý and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waiting by the canal, a young cellist meets a junkie, high and drifting. He gives him twenty krona and they exchange a few words; the encounter is unremarkable. Yet for the cellist - who grew up a poor immigrant in the outskirts of Malmö, and who lost friends and family to drug abuse, crime and death - a barrier in his mind has collapsed, and he leaves the canal chased by a creeping floodtide of memories, all of which threaten to drag him back to where he came from. Tearing through sprawling social housing estates, basement clubs and squat parties,Wretchedness is a tumultuous and raging journey into the underbelly of Europe. With a rhythmic, mesmerising flow, Tichý probes the bittersweet pleasures of escaping one's origins, and of loving one's neighbour without question - even when that neighbor is an addict, a criminal, wretched.