Swimming in the Dark

Tomasz Jedrowski

First love in 1980s Poland, where the relationship and the politics turn out to be one choice.

In early-1980s Poland, university student Ludwik meets Janusz at a summer agricultural camp, and their affair runs directly into a state that permits neither the relationship nor the silence around it. Jedrowski writes first love and political compromise as the same choice.

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Dua Lipa

Singer-songwriter and founder of Service95

My May Monthly Read is Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski. It’s a beautiful coming-of-age love story set against the brutal political backdrop of Communist Poland in the 1980s.

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