Robert Rej opened the lock and entered the flat. Lena was supposed to get here in a couple of minutes. She promised to come straight after her evening classes. She was supposed to bring some food. Grzegorz Woźniak’s apartment was a small two room flat in the Praga district of Warsaw. The block of flats was built in the late sixties and Robert...
Professor Henryk Tamka lit a cigarette and slowly inhaled the smoke after a long day at the University. It was an ordinary day, some students engaged in hectic conversations about the political situation in China and Tibet, there were still some idealistic ones, ready to protest for the sake of people, whose civil liberties were taken away from them. He liked his job,...
English philology department consisted of faculties of literature, culture, history, and linguistics: theoretical or practical. The majority of subjects were taught in English, the majority of books and critical texts were also in English and the majority of written assignments had to be written in English. That description was for Lena Zaya an adequate picture of her studies, which she provided to Robert....
The stay in Berlin might have been a blissful time when life seemed to be easier, where buildings were shiny and modern and even the Holocaust Memorial was overshadowed by the taste of beer and those fat delicious sausages. Now Lena Zaya had to forget about all that. What was great about her relationship with Gabriel Gacek was the fact that for a...
