A young gay man enters to a clanste affair the reprsive polil climate of munist Poland the early 1980s.
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- BOOK REVIEW: SWIMMG THE DARK BY TOMASZ JęDROWSKI ★★★★1/2
- SWIMMG THE DARK: ‘ONE OF THE MOST ASTONISHG NTEMPORARY GAY NOVELS WE HAVE EVER READ … A MASTERPIECE’ – ATTU PAPERBACK – 11 FEBARY 2021
BOOK REVIEW: SWIMMG THE DARK BY TOMASZ JęDROWSKI ★★★★1/2
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Beg gay Poland that era was more or ls unmentnable, a fact that Ludwik rents and Janz accepts.
SWIMMG THE DARK: ‘ONE OF THE MOST ASTONISHG NTEMPORARY GAY NOVELS WE HAVE EVER READ … A MASTERPIECE’ – ATTU PAPERBACK – 11 FEBARY 2021
The dranian measur ed by thori to disurage homosexualy Communist Poland are ightful, but not so different om the harsh antigay bias prevalent Ameri jt a few s earlier. I've been readg as many gay centric books as possible this past month and fished this last night. But when they return to town, the two men mt make their way a homophobic world filled wh opprsn and hypocrisy.
Racg briefs are also rigr for swimmers, water polo players and divers, and wily embraced by the gay muny.
He has been cril of a French gay publitn for not treatg gays as ordary people. Ludwik, the stunt narrator, out at a time when gays had no role mols to follow.