The head of a snake

Lukash Orbitovskyi (born in 1977) is a graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University. Winner of many prestigious Polish literary awards, including the Jerzy Żulawski Literary Prize, the Janusz Seidel Prize, the Stefan Grabinski Polish Literary Prize and the SFinks Prize, Lukasz Orbitowski reflects the current trends in the literary field of many genres – from horror and mysticism to social drama and hard realism up to magical realism and elements of deep psychologism. Starting his creative career in the genres of mysticism, fantasy and horror, over time Orbitovsky looks more and more closely towards realism and social drama, which, however, does not prevent him from continuing to be the author of incredibly whimsical and mysterious texts in which ordinary everyday reality is inseparable from a different reality, alien to us and unfamiliar, a reality that is always somewhere here, nearby, but, unfortunately or fortunately, not everyone has the optics to observe it. Lukash Orbitovsky, for example, is not only able to see it, but also has a real talent as a storyteller, whose words you immediately believe, regardless of the amazingness of the story he tells.

Łukasz Orbitowski is the best confirmation of the latest trends of the more and more confident entry of fantasy literature into general literature, because today this writer is considered one of the most powerful representatives of modern Polish literature. Lukasz Orbitowski is often said to be the Polish Stephen King, and the writer jokingly calls himself the "Luke Skywalker of Polish literature."

This book is a kind of slice of Orbitov's work, as all twelve stories presented in it are presented according to the chronology of their creation and are important points on the map of his creative biography.