Warsaw 1937. Jakub Szapiro, a Jewish thug and champion boxer, the same age as the century, is the eponymous ‘king’ of Szczepan Twardoch’s novel, although he comes into his ki
The desire to uncover the truth about why Miedzianka, a provincial mountain-top town in Lower Silesia with a history stretching back 700 years, literally vanished from the face o
