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A review by fallona
Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski
4.0
At its best, it's a very accessible novel about definitions of freedom, and about choices on how to engage with or pull away from a deeply flawed system when seeking either (or both) freedom and stability.
Unfortunately I'm a lot more interested in the political tensions between Ludwik and Janusz, and Janusz's relationship with power and stability, than in what Ludwik thinks of everyone naked.
The novel does a good job evoking its time and place, and the characters are generally likable. The narrative lets their choices be complicated without overly punishing them.
Unfortunately I'm a lot more interested in the political tensions between Ludwik and Janusz, and Janusz's relationship with power and stability, than in what Ludwik thinks of everyone naked.
The novel does a good job evoking its time and place, and the characters are generally likable. The narrative lets their choices be complicated without overly punishing them.