This is an extraordinary book. I discovered it in a bookshop in Krakow, it looked interesting, so later I ordered it. It was a surprise, it's not that often that an old bookworm like me finds such an original and excellent work. I guess it could only have been written in the first quarter of the 20th century, when modernism turned the novel writing upside down.
The book is so original in so many ways. One can classify it as a dystopian book, or as a socialist book, but the good thing is that it defies classification - it deals with how society and civilized mores crash during a catastrophe, but also how humanity endures. His characters are all extremely humane and believable, ordinary human beings caught in extraordinary circumstances and questioning their moral standards. They're all real and endearing, and it's painful to watch their inexorable demise.
It's a wonderful read, and I highly recommend it.
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