Tylko durnie żyją do końca

Lida, a PE teacher who respects no culture but the physical kind, tells her own story in a dense, clipped monologue. She lives on a run-down estate in a village by the Narew with two partners; in middle age the three share one bed, look after each other and drink quince vodka, and long ago a child was born to them, Jadwiga, who now barely keeps in touch. Lida swims among ice floes in spring, scoffs at village customs, tends her old dad and stray dogs, and quietly gives money to local women facing unwanted pregnancies. The parish priest will not greet her. Behind the household lies an older hurt, handed down from her grandparents' marriage to her father as a boy, and harm keeps working in the background.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

206 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Poland

First published

2025 by Wydawnictwo W.A.B.

Author's age

61 when first published

ISBN

9788384252987 (original)