I have never been this hesitant to write my thoughts on a book as I have been before writing this. Before I begin talking about the book, I would recommend you to go ahead and read it if you are into literary fiction that explores the underworld, the other side of beauty, if I may say so. The book is a story of two queer teenagers from the post-communist, East European countries who are out there in the 1990s in Vienna, Munich and Zurich working as escorts. At the heart of it, it's a sad exploration of their impoverished lives making something out of themselves in cities with foreign languages, expensive lifestyles, annoying sugar daddies and drugs, pubs and everything that's not for them. For one of the teens, his eleven-inch proves as an asset in the market of queens and grandpas, but for the gender-fluid Milan, who loves desserts and make-up and barely has a cock, or a face, or a body that attracts rich customers- life is unbelievably difficult. I was throughly amazed at the author's style of writing and the sharp use of wit and humour spreading over the whole story as we move between kinky sex scenes, violent encounters, and the remorseful passages of self-abasement. There was a life breathed into every page, for which the credit also goes to the translator, I suppose. I am so fortunate to have read this novel, discovered a Polish writer who talks about sexuality, regional political differences, violence, class, race in such a cohesive manner that never for once felt feigned or all-over-the-place. Even though I have never been to these cities, I could imagine Christmas in Vienna, buildings and Oktoberfest in Munich, chocolates, ice-creams and coffee in Zurich. Besides the loud, neon-lit gay 'whore-houses' of these cities, the author continuously placed the aesthetic appeal of these places that makes them the ideal-typical picture of the West. Please do not go into the novel expecting some form of justice or fairness because that's not what the author is concerned about, here. The author is simply interested in writing about the story of two destitute queers who are having fun, making money, having sex, lots of chocolates, coffees, cigarettes, alcohol and at the same time being beaten up, left unpaid, hungry, homeless and poor- and this is their life; not some justice or ending that makes all their years culminate to a point.