Stasiuk s masterpiece in line with the work of Danilo Kis and countryman Bruno Schulz is finally made available in English in a stunning translation by Bill Johnston.

Born in Warsaw in 1960, Andrzej Stasiuk is the author of five novels and a collection of essays, Fado (2009). On the Road to Babadag won the prestigious Nike Award on its original publication in Poland in 2005. 

Bill Johnston is the leading translator of Polish literature in the United States. His translation of Tadeusz Roewicz's new poems won the 2008 Found in Translation Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Poetry Award.