In 1913, a young, but pale and unhealthy Mieczyslaw Wojnicz arrives at a health resort in the quaint and brooding Silesian Mountain village of Görbersdorf (currently known as Sokołowsko in Poland). Suffering from tuberculosis, Wojnicz hopes to be treated and cured in a massive sanatorium abutting the Guesthouse for Gentlemen, where the young lad checks … Continue reading the empusium – olga tokarczuk