Swimming in the Dark
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Swimming in the Dark (2020) is Tomasz Jedrowski's debut novel, a love story set in communist Poland in 1980. Ludwik, a university student in Warsaw, meets Janusz at an agricultural work camp, and they spend a summer together by a lake in the countryside. Back in the city, as food shortages and strikes spread, the two men drift apart when Janusz makes compromises with the regime that Ludwik cannot accept.
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