Tomasz Jedrowski

"When university student Ludwik meets Janusz at a summer agricultural camp, he is fascinated yet wary of this handsome, carefree stranger. But a chance meeting by the river soon becomes an intense, exhilarating, and all-consuming affair. After their camp duties are fulfilled, the pair spend a dreamlike few weeks camping in the countryside, bonding over an illicit copy of James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room. Inhabiting a beautiful natural world removed from society and its constraints, Ludwik and Janusz fall deeply in love. But in their repressive communist and Catholic society, the passion they share is utterly unthinkable"--Dust jacket flap.

A Novel

Swimming in the Dark

Imie Kent-Muller

Alex Stelzhammer

Alonso Pamplona

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Did you ever have someone like that, someone that you loved in vain when you were younger? Did you ever feel something like my shame? I always assumed that you must have, that you can't possibly have gone through life as carelessly as you made out. But now I begin to think that not everyone suffers in the same way; that not everyone, in fact, suffers. Not from the same things, at any rate. And in a way this is what made us possible, you and me.

Alexandra Jacob

But now i begin to think that not everyone suffers in the same way; that not everyone, in fact, suffers. Not from the same things at any rate.

The geography of you was suddenly as clear as the city 

We've always been a secret, Ludwik. It's just that until now there was no one to hide from 

I was paralyzed by possibility, caught between the vertigo of fulfilment and the abyss of uncertainty.

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