The Map is, as translator Kate Webster calls it, ‘an innovative, imaginative puzzle of a book’ – an adventure tale, with a non-linear plot, which slips from century to century, and theme to theme. From exploring ideas of the world, women and individual identity, to issues around nostalgia, memory and the Holocaust, the book is a journey through history and the human mind. And at its heart – holding the plot together – is a 15th-century map. Sounds mysterious? Even the genre of the book is unclear: in some ways, The Map is a novel – but, in other ways, it can be classed as a collection of seven short stories. The literary debut for Barbara Sadurska, The Map is an innovative and uniquely playful approach to storytelling which has already received praise in Poland: the book was awarded the Witold Gombrowicz Prize in 2020.