The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

by Olga Tokarczuk

Book Overview

The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas

September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz's Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of G rbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593712943
• ISBN13: 9780593712948
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Length: 320 Pages