![]() ![]() ![]() Swimming in the Dark is an unforgettable debut about youth, love, and loss - and the sacrifices we make to live lives with meaning. Exiled from paradise, Ludwik and Janusz must decide how they will survive and in their different choices, find themselves torn apart. Here he meets Janusz - and together, they spend a dreamlike summer swimming in secluded lakes, reading forbidden books - and falling in love.īut with summer over, the two are sent back to Warsaw, and to the harsh realities of life under the Party. Anxious, disillusioned Ludwik Glowacki, soon to graduate university, has been sent along with the rest of his class to an agricultural camp. You were right when you said that people can't always give us what we want from them. Jedrowski is an authentic new international star' EDMUND WHITE 'A lyrical exploration of the conflict between gay love and political conformity. The highest talent at work' SEBASTIAN BARRY 'Marvellous, precise, poignant writing the reader is happy to be overwhelmed. 'A beautiful novel, and at its heart it was an amazing love story and I think that's something that everyone is looking for' BBC Radio 4 Open Book, Editor's Pick 'One of the most astonishing contemporary gay novels we have ever read. An enchanting story of coming out and surviving, just, in a cold climate' Andrew Adonis, Evening Standard Books of the Year that is consonant with many of the traditions of gay fiction, yet is also utterly new and entirely. ![]() Erotic, mesmeric, heart-rending and brutal, this is a masterpiece.' - Attitude magazine (UK) 'A remarkable, beautiful tale. 'Tomasz Jedrowski's Swimming in the Dark is captivating on the twin challenge of being both gay and liberal in communist Poland. Swimming in the Dark is extraordinarily beautiful. ![]()
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