Wrong Blood (Polish original title Zła krew)
Nasza Księgarnia Publishers, 2009

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Wrong Blood is a narrative recounting a boy’s youth in the Polish city of Łódź circa 1960. It is also a story that draws attention to the city’s pre-war Jewish Bałuty district, and the then Association of Jewish Writers and Journalists in Warsaw with its pleiad of would-be Nobel Prize winners. The boy’s memories take him back to the Gomułka era and he recalls the impact of Mickiewicz’s Forefathers, accidental patrons of the March 1968 events in Poland. The brothers Karamazov and an Auschwitz Sonderkommando survivor have a profound effect on the boy.

Wrong Blood is a personal story of a boy who is conflicted as he yearns for bygone days, yet he is repulsed by the graphic memories of cruel historical fact.