Nocturine
Fiction collection forthcoming in May 2025 from FATHOM BOOKS
The end of the world starts like an ad campaign. When black cubes appear above the city of Poznań, some think it’s just another mobile network operator entering the market. These include Mietek, an unemployed man in his twenties, suddenly abandoned by his boyfriend. Soon his best friend also disappears while the black cubes in the sky start to multiply, taking up more and more of the urban space.
NOCTURINE is a collection of interlinked stories that takes you on a genre-bending journey from contemporary Poznań devoured by an 8-bit amoeba to a house comprised of countless floors, to a homestead haunted by dummies, to the inside of a human body. Each of six pieces is told by a different narrator in a frantic yet melancholic style.
Drobnik wowed us with his free-wheeling sentence structure + utterly unique vision.
FATHOM BOOKS, the publisher
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To say Nocturine is oneiric is an understatement — it’s a psychedelic. It kicks in slowly, swaying you from the very first sentences. Hypnotic phrase. Beautiful!
Patrycja Janowska, LAMPA 1–2/2012
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Drobnik creates an evocative, oppressive mood through the dangerous unknown; subtly, with a single shift outside the boundaries of what we are used to.
Ilona Witkowska, ODRA 5/2012
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Drobnik’s strategy is to combine a fast-paced plot typical of popular literature with the highly metaphorical language of literary fiction.
Rafał Derda, ELEWATOR 2/2012
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I’m not going to build suspense. Let me say it right away: this book will drag you in with its thousand tentacles (everyone gets their own, according to their liking).
Marta Sawicka-Danielak, BLUSZCZ 2/2012
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