![]() ![]() Just when you thought tropes of the lonely, disaffected, interiorised, persecuted homosexual were dead and we’d moved on, along comes another. Equally, I had hoped this novel might focus more on the socio-political dimensions of its setting, as promised in the blurb, but instead, like so many ‘gay’ novels of its type, it turns inward. It’s a pity to call it a fling, considering how touching a lot of the story’s moments are, but the sketchy relationship described doesn’t quite fit the emotional profundities its adolescent protagonist propagates out of it. Swimming In The Dark tells the blighted/self-blighted love story of a patchy fling in Poland at the time of Solidarity – Polish union resistance to the Soviet imposed authoritarian government. ![]()
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