Vilnius Poker

Lituania. They're watching him, they're after him, they're after his life. Vytautas Vargalys knows: they are everywhere and Vilnius belongs to them... As the librarian in charge of cataloguing the dangerous works they have put on the index, his battle is to foil their traps. Guardian of history, the last of the Vargalys sinks into a delirium fueled by a burning feeling of abandonment. Only Lolita, a saintly seductress with a troubled past, can convince him that life is possible. A hallucinatory paranoid epic, Vilnius Poker is a proclamation of the omnipotence of freedom, which hit the world like a bomb when it was published and was the catharsis of a gagged people, propelling Ricardas Gavelis to the rank of an immense writer.