A major literary debut set in Communist Poland about the forbidden love between two young men on opposite sides of the political divide
Tomasz Jedrowski was born in West Germany to Polish parents and studied law at Cambridge and the Université de Paris. He speaks five languages and currently lives in France. Swimming in the Dark is his first novel.
Marvellous, precise, poignant writing; the reader is happy to be
overwhelmed. The highest talent at work
*SEBASTIAN BARRY*
An enthralling debut
*TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT*
A remarkable, beautiful tale ... Utterly new and entirely credible
... This book radiates sensuality, humour, and human truths …
Swimming in the Dark is sensual and immersive, and Ludwik’s
sentimental education is so well described that the reader is left
wanting more. You won’t want to miss it
*LITERARY REVIEW*
Elegant, compelling and full of melancholy beauty ... I will keep
it on my shelves alongside novels by Alan Hollinghurst, Edmund
White and other classics in the gay canon
*EVENING STANDARD*
One of the most astonishing contemporary gay novels we have ever
read … extraordinarily beautiful, enrapturing and poignant …
Erotic, mesmeric, heart-rending and brutal, this is a
masterpiece
*ATTITUDE*
A young Polish author who writes rather miraculously in English, of
which he has magisterial and frankly, Conradian command
*Guardian, Books of the Year*
New Year, New Writers … Swimming in the Dark is an unforgettable
debut about youth, love, and loss - and the sacrifices we make to
live lives with meaning
*Foyles.co.uk*
Beautifully judged, very moving, passionate ... I was completely
gripped
*PATRICIA DUNCKER*
Captivating both for its shimmering surfaces and its terrifying
under-deep. I began reading, and soon realized I wouldn’t be doing
anything else that day. I needed to see these boys, these lovers,
through to the end. Tomasz 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*
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. A beautiful,
captivating love story that deepened my understanding of life in
communist era Poland
*Jessica Shattuck, New York Times bestselling author of The Women
in the Castle*
A lyrical exploration of the conflict between gay love and
political conformity. Jedrowski is an authentic new international
star
*EDMUND WHITE*
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