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Marca, Robert, Janek and Alina share a tenement in Ruda Śląska in 1999; Robert and Janek are raised by their Silesian grandmother, because their parents, like so many, left to earn money in the West. Ten years later, in Ustroń and Katowice, their dreams of escape seem to come true: Alina lives with her daughter in a famous modernist block, her friends find jobs at a mountain resort. In 2019 they meet again, take stock and try to repair what broke between them. Adults by now, they still ask whether they are good enough and whether they will be left again.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

314 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Migration, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Poland, 1999–2019

First published

2021 by Wydawnictwo Literackie

Author's age

33 when first published

ISBN

9788308073971 (original)