Publisher about the book (source: Bukla)Konstanty Willeman wakes up one morning in 1939, all scrunched up, trying to figure out who he is. The question goes deeper than the usual drunken blackout. The Germans occupied Warsaw a fortnight ago, and it is high time he decided whether he is German or Polish. Up until now, he has not bothered himself with the question of his nationality, but in 1939, such ambivalence is no longer possible. 

Konstanty's father was German, his mother a German-speaking Silesian who decided to be Polish and raised her son in this spirit. Konstanty therefore has two native languages and two souls in one body. Almost involuntarily he joins the rebel movement, where he has to spy for the Germans. But soon no one is sure who Konstanty really is, least of all the hero himself. 

Polish writer Szczepan Twardoch (1979) has managed to write an extraordinary, provocative book about a likable antihero caught in the tangle of history. It is a radical, linguistically juicy combination of historical narrative with elements of political and psychological thriller. For his novel Morphia, he received the Nika Readers' Choice Award for Best Novel, as well as the Polityka weekly award, and was nominated for several others.