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Article: A womanizer, a queen, Vietnam, and Israel.(BOOKS)(FICTION)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 24, 2002
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Byline: Corinna Lothar, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Pawel Kohoutek, doctor of veterinary medicine, is a feckless womanizer. He doesn't dislike his wife with whom he lives, together with his gloomy child, his half-crazy mother and various other eccentric family members and equally odd lodgers; he just can't resist attractive women.
His Current Woman (Hydra Books, $15.95, 128 pages), by Polish author Jerzy Pilch, begins with Pawel looking out the window one November day in 1990 and seeing his current mistress "her divine skull . . . covered with a funky little hat, while the colossal suitcase she was dragging behind her left a dark trail of final ...