Jan Labendowicz refuses to help a German woman fleeing Poland in the mid-1940s, and she curses him. Soon Jan has a son: a boy with snow-white skin and equally white hair. Meanwhile, the lives of other parents are changed by the explosion of a grenade left after the war. And soon the stories of two families are forever connected when a girl mutilated in fire and an albino who sees the river of the dead meet. Thus begins “Tremors,” a large-scale saga covering almost the entire 20th century, from the late 1930s to the mid-2000s, which reflected the entire history of Eastern Europe in recent decades, and intertwined eternal questions of life and death with harsh realism and piercing lyricism , a psychological thriller and dark mysticism. This is how the novel begins, which has become one of the most high-profile discoveries of Polish literature in recent years.