© Swiat Literacki, 2009
Set in contemporary Krakow, Light opens with the chance encounter of two men in a café. As the night progresses, the younger man tells the story of the great love of his life, of how in the midst of their rapture the woman inexplicably disappeared, and of how he is now driving across Europe in a desperate attempt to find her. His story unleashes questions and memories in his older counterpart, whose own life uncannily echoes a similar experience. After their parting, the old man finds himself on an unexpected quest, assembling stories both from his own past and from that of the young man and the woman he loved and lost. Light traverses Europe and parts of America, the history of physics and political changes in Central Europe and shows how stories, once created, can lead, inadvertently, to revelation.
Secker & Warburg 2004
Translated into: Polish
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