To the memory of my wife Mary Hayward Weir without whom even the past would lose its meaningĬopyright 1965, 1976 by Jerzy N. (Under the pen name Joseph Novak) The Future Is Ours, Comrade No Third Path Passing By Notes of the Author The Art of the SelfNONFICTION The Painted Bird Steps Being There The Devil Tree Cockpit Blind Date Passion Play Pinball The Hermit of 69th StreetESSAYS

Full of graphic scenes depicting rape, torture, and bestiality, the novel portrays evil in all its manifestations and speaks of human isolation as inevitable. He learns how to stay alive at any cost, turning survival into a moral imperative. A dark-haired Polish child who is taken for either a Gypsy or a Jew loses his parents in the mayhem of war and wanders through the countryside at the mercy of the brutal, thickheaded peasants he meets in the villages. The ordeals of the central character parallel Kosinski's own experiences during World War II.

Summary: Semiautobiographical novel by Jerzy Kosinski, published in 1965 and revised in 1976.

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