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Bernard Crawlone

Worth reading

Commenté en France 🇫🇷 le 17 décembre 2021

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The story line is well described and the characters are credible. The interesting part is the fact that the story takes place beyond the iron curtain, in a country where stigma of homosexualilty is even higher because of its very religious culture.

L'histoire est bien décrite et les personnages sont crédibles. La chose intéressante est le fait que cela a lieu d'hier le rideau de fer, dans un pays où la stigmatisation de l'homosexualité est même plus haute à cause de sa culture très religieuse.

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Swimming in the Dark

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 19 janvier 2023

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Two things strike me. The alien world of communist Poland when it comes to the fear facing homosexuals. The other is the utter control and arbitrariness of the government in keeping citizens oppressed. Two gay men trying to have some sort of relationship in a country where you couldn’t have one. One believes in staying in the system while working your way up the power ladder. The other sees no hope in it. To have success he sees you must sacrifice your principles. The other says give it time. Trust me. We’ll get what we want. The other sees the inevitable loss of who they are during the process of using people to get to the end goals. They go their separate ways. By the end you never get a clear view on what became of either man. The one being aligned with the communist Polish government could have come to a tragic end when they were ousted. The other was in America but did not seem happy. No sense of trying to make a new life for himself. Going to the west was to find freedom. Did he?

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R. M. Ettinger

Enjoyed

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 28 novembre 2022

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Clearly, you can write a book about what I didn't remember (or paid attention to) regarding Poland in the early '80s.

I liked 'Swimming in the Dark'. I didn't love it. It moved along a good clip, as I finished it in one sitting. I liked the characters but I never felt completely attached to them either. I think part of this was, Ludwik and Janus didn't seem fully attached to each other.

I felt how they connected was beautiful, yet how to maintain that was tricky - for them and for the reader. Navigating a relationship in a communist government could be construed as a metaphor for the barriers to any relationship, let alone your first one.

Characters develop, so that is fine. Few are stagnant, but most of them have no clear conclusion. While, that is indeed life, it can make for a frustrating read.

I wasn't sure why Ludwik even wrote to Janus in the first place, or why the inclusion of short tale of Ludwik's childhood friend even was included, other than to talk about Jews in communist Europe. There is no connection later to this, but, I might be quibbling.

The book is well constructed and easy to read. It held my attention, and in today's fiction, sometimes that is the best thing that can be said.

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Timothy

A heartfelt story

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 22 mai 2022

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Great book about two guys in love in early 80’s Poland when it was very much in a state of transition out of communist socialism. Both guys share a lot of love but different thoughts on how their love for each other should be handled and dealt with in terms of their careers and where they should live. They clearly have differing priorities. The implied bisexuality involving one of them, whether natural or forced, is disappointing and the reason I gave the book four stars instead of five. I felt myself compelled to order a used copy of Giovanni’s Room after finishing this book in order to further connect all the dots. I have yet to read that book. All in all, well written, very descriptive and enjoyable. One can marvel at the adoration between these two clear to the end.

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Unforgettable!

Commenté en Inde 🇮🇳 le 24 janvier 2022

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Oh God!!!!this was heart-wrenchingly painful.i know this is not a young adult kind of "expect a sequel ",we are talking good fiction here but i would really love to see our main character coping with the heartb.....or if they have any*spoiler*
chance of getting back together you know??

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BernieM

Described as a masterpiece...

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 21 septembre 2020

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...And I'm inclined to agree. Some have been comparing it with Pasternak's Zhivago - but here I'm undecided. It hasn't the stature or the sweep of the Pasternak but it penetrates deeper into the psychology of the participants. Pasternak, as I recall, wasn't interested in the sexual preferences of his characters (though I have to admit I read Zhivago probably half a century ago) whereas Swimming in the Dark keeps them centre-stage, which is scarcely surprising given the penalties his characters face for deviation. It is a remarkable novel by all the standards generally applied by penetrative readers, but perhaps not quite Nobel material. I wait to be proved wrong. bm.

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Brawly

Love in a Cold Climate

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 8 août 2020

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This is one of the most convincing stories I have read about first love that stands head and shoulders above most gay novels. It reads like a first novel based on personal experience, if not an autobiography, and there isn’t a false note in the whole book. Moreover, despite the constant danger of being exposed under the repressive Cold War regime in Poland, and their very different expectations, the way the two main protagonists handle their relationship is very believable and remains so when the narrator moves to the USA. This new novel is upbeat and life-affirming and I strongly recommend it.

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Jeremy l

Beautiful story of love and pain

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 29 mai 2021

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A well told and atmospheric book which captures both the constraints and conflicts of living in socialist Poland and also the tension and wonder of finding true love. I was sad when I finished reading it as I wanted to know what happened next. Always a sign of a good read

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Epi

Enjoyable read

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 6 avril 2021

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Very captivating book at some points. There were plenty of happy and sad moments and many times I find myself guessing what would happen later on. The only thing I've never been keen neither on movies or books is when the story jumps forth and back in time.

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P. B. Daily

Definite read

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 21 juin 2021

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This book was a joy to read Much better in my opinion than call me by you name. They should consider making this into a movie You should definitely consider adding this to you summer reading list by the pool.

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