Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski

(2020 Harper Collins)

I lived in Poland for four years, and although that was unexpected, I found myself truly falling for the country. The language, with its consonant-laden nouns and verbs of prodigious length, intrigued me, and the good weather, which arrived in April and stayed until September, I found inspiring. The cerulean skies, bright sunshine, leafy streets, and ga…