In September 1913, a young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in the Silesian mountains.
Every evening the residents gather to drink the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: monarchy or democracy? Are women born inferior? War or peace? A century after the publication of The Magic Mountain, Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, blending horror, comedy and folklore with brilliant storytelling.
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