'The surprise of Swimming in the Dark lies in its intimate ambivalence - that it captures the pleasures of everyday life behind the Iron Curtain as well as the privations.
Jedrowski is a remarkable writer, alive to the ramifications of history and politics, in which the violence of a corrupt state can never fully stamp out the flourishing of beauty, grace and resistance' JUSTIN TORRES, bestselling author of We the Animals I needed to see these boys, these lovers, through to the end. 'I began reading, and soon realized I wouldn’t be doing anything else that day. 'A young Polish author who writes rather miraculously in English, of which he has magisterial and frankly, Conradian command' GUARDIAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR
'Marvellous, precise, poignant writing the reader is happy to be overwhelmed.
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