Janek Janowiec is awaiting trial. In his cramped attic apartment in Krakow he has decided to set straight the record of his life, and yet he is wracked by the guilt and knowledge of a number of terrible secrets. What happened to his friend, the charismatic revolutionary leader, Fredzio? Where do the bodies that wash up on the banks of the river come from? What exactly did his father do in the war? Did Janek really go canoeing with the Pope? Is he guilty of the crime he is accused of? Where is his wife Rachel? And will their daughter Ewa ever return from her shopping trip ...?With Janek himself telling the story the answers can never really be known - hinted at, glimpsed, slowly revealed perhaps, but solid facts disappeared from his life many years ago. The need for secrecy seems ever more necessary when the voice of his dead father starts to visit him in his attic - goading, bullying and tormenting him as he used to when Janek was a boy. Read Less