Marta Tomczok's monograph is not only the first such collection of post-Holocaust postmodern
novels but also the first comprehensive study of postmodernism in the literature about the
Holocaust which thanks to comparative analysis tries to analyze and explain the
circumstances of the appearance and later disappearance of this trend from cultural landscape
of the world and Poland. Curiosity about the fate of postmodernism combined with interest in
the fate of novels about the Holocaust as a chance to explain the common failures of
postmodernism and the complicated history of postmodern post-Holocaust prose
