Dreams and Stones is a small masterpiece, one of the most extraordinary works of literature to come out of Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of communism. In sculpted, poetic prose reminiscent of Bruno Schulz, it tells the story of the emergence of a great city. In Tulli’s hands myth, metaphor, history, and narrative are combined to magical effect. Dreams and Stones is about the growth of a city, and also about all cities; at the same time it is not about cities at all, but about how worlds are created, trans- formed, and lost through words alone. A stunning debut by one of Europe’s finest new writers

A single streetcar line runs around the sleepy suburban square of an unnamed city. One day — out of nowhere — a group of hapless refugees pour from the streetcar and set up camp in the square. The residents grow hostile to the disruption and chaos, and eventually take matters into their own hands… Flaw is Tulli’s most intense and personally motivated work to date, while still retaining the signature mind-and word-play so admired by critics and her growing readership

"The originality of Tulli's writing is not lessened by representing a family tree that includes Michaux, Kafka, Calvino, and Saramago." — W.S. Merwin In this inventive novel, Magdalena Tulli creates a world that is unreal, yet strangely familiar and utterly convincing. Set in a mythical fourth partition of Poland, In Red is full of haunting descriptions of the town and its inhabitants; its power lies in Tulli's evocative, almost hallucinatory use of language

A feckless, comical narrator struggles against all odds to tell a story for which he is responsible, but which he neither controls nor understands. His characters multiply, repeat, and go astray; his employer pays no attention, asleep in a drunken stupor. The increasingly desperate narrator clambers over rooftops and through underground passages, watching helplessly as his characters reappear in different times and settings and start rival stories against his will. This brilliant, wryly humorous work tells of the sadness of the world and of the inadequate means that language and storytelling offer for describing and understanding it. Yet it does so in Tulli's characteristically clear, concrete, gorgeous prose. This extraordinary work, unique in both form and message, shows a European master at the height of her powers and constitutes a major contribution to a new century of European literature. A wildly inventive page-turner

Na oczach czytelnika zostaje powołany do życia wielkomiejski plac, po którym krąży tramwaj. W tej minimalistycznej scenerii zawiązuje się historyjka o dniu powszednim i utajonych namiętnościach mieszkańców: notariusza obarczonego rodziną, studenta radykała, ospałego policjanta, młodej służącej. Sprawy te jednak pozostają w cieniu niejasnej gry, prowadzonej na zapleczach, gdzie ważne są tylko pokątne korzyści niewidocznego personelu, odpowiedzialnego za zewnętrzną oprawę zdarzeń. Wszechobecna, destrukcyjna prowizorka jest wyrazem jego arogancji, która udziela się mieszkańcom, zatruwając uczucia. Ze swej strony pogardzają oni każdym, kto jest od nich zależny. Pogarda wprawia w ruch mechanizm przemocy i wykluczenia, gdy plac zapełnia przybyły tramwajem tłum, nagle pozbawiony dachu nad głową. Im mniej ktoś w tym świecie znaczy, tym więcej cudzych win przychodzi mu dźwigać