The Holy Infant

<p><strong>Danzig 1880. Józef Nowak is an ex-monk and ex-soldier in love and in lust with a barmaid named Klara a woman who in addition to being already married and decades his senior is prey to ecstatic visions one of which Józef shares: a luminous heart floating over a hill. Love unrequited Józef would be happy enough to suffer in his own bewildered way but after his latest vocation as a transatlantic engine stoker ends in injury and bloodshed he finds himself washed up in America in Philadelphia bereft. That is until the scion of shipping fortune one Mister Persson tells him that Klara too has come to America and since disappeared. So Józef dives into a new world south and then west chasing the shadow of Klara into the desert and to the edge of Sonora Mexico. Hindered by pilgrims of ill-intent and aided by a single friend Doctor Davidson a dopehead and a devotee of the enigmatic can Józef hope to find Klara? And if he does will he find a seer a saint or a madwoman? Is Klara foretold in the savage back pages of the Bible? Will Józef's habit of failure leave him blood-encrusted destroyed and beyond all meaning? Find out in Józef Nowak's own account The Holy Infant a manuscript salvaged from a forgotten archive. Whether of fevered madness or revelation Nowak's yarn is at minimum as he himself claimed The weird and thrilling narrative of a lost man.</strong></p><p></p><p></p>