Andrzej Tichý

This is what I expect from a prize-winning novel. If this does not make the Booker International shortlist I will be VERY disappointed.

It's challenging, there is social commentary (immigration, drug use, abuse, mental illness, poverty, coming-of-age), it's sad and hopeful, there are references to real places and people (that also leave me wondering what I missed), it is original, and it all comes together in the end.

Yet I feel like I really need to read it again.