Gestures

Grzegorz, a theatre director and playwright of about forty, leaves his comfortable Warsaw flat to visit his mother in Białystok, whom he has not seen for months. She looks and feels unwell; he insists on hospital, and the diagnosis leaves no hope. The visit stretches on, and he returns to childhood memories, such as his parents' quarrels over money, his grandmother and his choice to study theatre instead of medicine. Nobody here is happy: the mother suffered with the father, the son with them all, and now, alone, he suffers with himself.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

260 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Poland

First published

2008 by Wydawnictwo Literackie

Author's age

32 when first published

ISBN

9788308042601 (original)

9781628971637 (Dalkey Archive Press, United States)