Jeżycjada

Jeżycjada is a series of books for young people by Polish author Małgorzata Musierowicz.

Professor Zbigniew Raszewski, an admirer of the series and a friend of the author, invented this title jokingly referring to the Iliad (Polish: "Iliada").

Musierowicz refers to real places (e.g. Roosevelt street), and events (workers' protests in June 1956).

The main core of Jeżycjada constitutes Borejko’s family, who live in the hundred years tenement at Roosevelt street.

[2] A movie entitled "ESD" was produced on the basis of the events described in “Ida Sierpniowa” and the “Kwiat Kalafiora”.

He's erudite and well-spoken, he often uses Latin quotations, even if his interlocutors don't understand the references (that usually happened when he talked to his daughters' boyfriends).

Melania (Mila) Borejko (née Kalemba) Born on 31 December 1935 to Zuzanna and Władysław Makowski.

Professionally she was trained to be an economist, but corrections for publishing companies are the main source of income for her.

Main character of "Kalamburka", where the reader gets familiar with her personal whereabouts preceding the year 2000.

Ida Pałys (née Borejko) Born on 15 March 1964, second daughter of Ignacy and Mila.

Although in her early teenage years she used to be a hypochondriac, in her adult life she becomes a successful physician specializing in laryngology.

Natalia (Nutria) Rojek (née Borejko) Born in 1971, third daughter of Ignacy and Mila.

coypu) thanks to her love for long baths and physical resemblance - due to her prominent incisor teeth.

Wife of Robert Rojek (who is known among his friends as “Robrojek”), mother of twins: Szymon and Jędrzej.

Patrycja (Pulpecja) Górska (née Borejko) Born on 11 April 1973, the youngest daughter of Ignacy and Mila.

As the reader learns from the other books, she manages to successfully pass it later on and graduates from the Department of the Forest Administration.