Michał Barczak

On a mission from Stalin, a Russian officer sets out to convince Polish soldiers held at POW camps to collaborate with Communist authorities.

Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Witkacy, Joseph Conrad and Bronisław Malinowski, four leading figures among the Zakopane bohemians, wake up after an all-night drunken party. Their hangover headaches are killing them, none of them remembers anything, and finding the corpse of a male stranger on the floor doesn’t help.

A small-town policewoman is chasing a vicious serial killer; at stake is first a country girl's life, and then her own life.

In these eight tales set across Europe, singles navigate love's complexities via an online dating site, from marital games to elderly romance.