Krótka wymiana ognia

A brief encounter at a bus stop makes Roma Dąbrowska, an old poet, see that her body has aged without her consent and that her love life is behind her. So she draws up an account of it: affairs and short passions, ex-husbands and admirers who return in grotesque visions, her mother among them. Along the way she sees herself as daughter, wife, writer and mother, and sets out to find her gifted daughter, who left her one day. The tone is ironic and comic throughout.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

198 pages in the original

Genres

Love, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Poland

First published

2018 by Wydawnictwo W.A.B.

Author's age

54 when first published

ISBN

9788328050617 (original)