Because her crime novel doesn't really want to get going, a woman grabs a knife and enters the scene. A Polish author is invited by a Scottish lady to her country house: there she writes about herself and creates herself completely anew. A circus impresario marries the ugliest woman in the world in cruel fascination and fathers the ugliest child in the world with her - an investment in the future. And a writer meets his alter ego at the apartment door, who talks to his students, steals his gestures, revises his works and can tolerate much more vodka than he does. Olga Tokarczuk tells the fantastic and the everyday, the fairy tale and the dreamlike, the surreal and the real - always surprising, poetic, multi-layered. Biography (Olga Tokarczuk) Olga Tokarczuk, born in 1962, studied psychology in Warsaw and is considered one of the most interesting Polish authors. Her books have already won several awards and are equally successful with critics and readers. In 2008, Olga Tokarczuk was awarded the Samuel Bogumil Linde Prize for Literature.