Jewish gangster. Polish hell. Warsaw 1937.New novel by Stephen HardochBeautiful cars, women, cold vodka and hot blood. Boxing, poverty districts and luxury brothels, mud Wola and elegant streets of Downtown. Jews and Poles. Getting benches and street fights. Ethnic, social, religious and political crucible of Warsaw 1937. And beyond all the divisions of the rule of the gangster world, in which strength is the most precious currency. It all starts in a crowded City Cinema room, where an enthusiastic audience watches boxing fight. There's a final match on the team championship of the capital. Polish fans are cheering on the representative of the Legion known phalangist Andrzej Ziembiński. The Jewish grandstands come to shout in honor of club player Makabi Warszawa, Jakub Szapira. This evening belongs to him. Among the cheers of one and the whistles of another, the triumphant Shapiri are looked at by seventeen-year-old Moses Bernsztajn and Kum Chapel an old PPS militant, a socialist and king of the Warsaw underworld. Forty years later, in Tel Aviv, retired soldier Moshe Inbar leans over the typewriter to return to the evening in which he first saw a beautiful, bold and extremely confident boxer in the ring. At the time he did not know that in 1937 it was Shapiro, the right hand of the Chapel, who killed his father because of unpaid debt. Nor did he suppose how much in his life would change one evening and meet Kum Chapel Targani with passions heroes, live conflicts and emotions, addictive action and its unpredictable phrases. Additionally, the first in Polish post-war literature so interesting and free of mythological portrait of the Jewish hero and exciting realities of Warsaw in the 1930s. Literary knock-out. Sites: 432, Format: 14.5x20.7 cmYear of issue: 2017, frame: hard