'Marvellous, precise, poignant writing; the reader is happy to be overwhelmed. The highest talent at work'
SEBASTIAN BARRY

'A young Polish author who writes rather miraculously in English, of which he has magisterial and frankly, Conradian command' GUARDIAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR

'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 ... 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