NOVEL AWARDED THE NIKE LITERARY AWARD One of the most important Polish novels. A provincial world seen through the eyes of a growing boy, with full-blooded, ambiguous characters – a multidimensional world that is impossible to forget. "«Widnokrąg» is certainly personal and undoubtedly, to a considerable degree, autobiographical […]. Its plot, characters and events exist in the way that the reality around us exists – not entirely transparent or explicable, demanding close attention and reflection on its inner meaning and consequences. It is certainly not a novel arranged according to the order of cause and effect; the secret of its «unity in multiplicity» lies rather in the phenomenon of life itself – birth, the passage from childhood into youth, maturing, old age and death. Jerzy Jarzębski