Pretty Twenty-Year Olds

"Pretty Twenty-Year Olds" is a self-portrait of the iconic Polish writer of the 50s and 60s, Marek Hłasko, against the background of communist Poland and not much brighter France, subdued Germany, and militant Israel, as well as ideological pressure and bohemian entertainment, police blackmail and night restaurants, psychiatric clinics, prisons, and brothels.

Written in "a strange mixture of jargon, government messages, the vocabulary of the street and party meetings", this parody of an autobiography - for all its fiction - is one of the most authentic literary reflections of the most deceitful era in the history of Eastern Europe and the author's best-known book, which continues to gain many fans around the world.