The career of the young Polish writer Tomasz Piontek (b. 1974) began as a journalist at radio stations and as a psycholinguistic expert on television. His debut in literature was the largely autobiographical novel “Heroin,” published in March 2002. The novel “Heroin” keeps the reader in suspense from the first to the last page with the inevitability of the tragedy that weighs on the heroes. From the fragments of the destinies of different people in the novel, one image of mother Hera is formed, soft and warm, attracting and caressing her children, giving oblivion in death...