280 pages | 6 x 9 | Fiction/Novel
ISBN: 979-888-855-0038
Hardback $24.99
Fall 2023
No Entry Zone
by Romuald Roman
Publication date: November 16th, 2023
Shipping date: Fall 2023
This humorous satire on communist Poland in the 1970’s takes place in an imaginary hotel deep in the Tatra Forest of Poland. Based on a story within a story recounted to the author, the hotel is a luxurious facility which never had a name and is termed “NEZ” for No Entry Zone. Here a full detachment of Secret Service guards were dispatched, not only to “protect and serve,” but to “protect and surveil” maids, waiters, bell boys, chefs, kitchen staff, and managers.
Whether or not the secluded valley where NEZ once welcomed provincial governors and well- connected apparatchiks to its spa, excellent cuisine, unlimited wine and beer (and other pleasures best left to conjecture) ever existed, is left to the reader. Real or imaginary, this secret place is well worth exploring.
“Perfect satire on Poland during the communist era, written with verve and wit.”
“I am about to reveal events that occurred in the No Entry Zone hotel, built in the Tatra Mountains in secret, by the Polish United Workers’ Party. The Tatras are inhabited by marmots, chamois, lynx, eagles, bears, and generations of rustic highlanders who speak their own dialect, live by their own rules, and in the course of six centuries have never found a good reason to integrate with the rest of Polish society.”
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— Thomas Merton