Purity

Author: Tich, Andrzej

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 4 June 2024 by And Other Stories in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 124 pages, Illustrations, unspecified
198 x 131 x 17 | 206g

The stories in Purity take the reader through cities and suburbs, apartments and streets, to find characters struggling to survive in modern society: a man has an outburst on a bus; a fugitive finds insight in a colour wheel; a social realist kills his friend with a hammer; a thief finds himself in books. And cleaners reluctantly go on cleaning. With gravity and humour, against the backdrop of a violent civilization, people are depicted as fallen, or waiting to fall, rendered by Tichý with the fury, compassion and emotional complexity of Kendrick Lamar.