Gestures [Paperback]

A forty-year-old man, burying himself in work and avoiding close emotional bonds with people, pays a visit to his mother in the country and is forced to extend it upon discovering her illness. While there, he reevaluates past familial and romantic relationships and finally attempts to build new ones.Gesturesis a psychologically precise and moving autopsy of a 'man in the wake of ordeals.' ???One of the most clever and interesting contemporary Polish prose writers

???A compelling story whose emotional content should ring true for every reader over forty'He???s proven that he???s an extraordinarily multifaceted writer, one who handles various styles brilliantly. -Robert OstaszewskiNominated for the NIKE Award, one of the most prestigious literary prizes in Poland There are few books that a publisher knows immediately that he wants to publish. Gestures is a novel that deals with a wide range of subjects and moods, but most of all it is rooted in a very interesting character that the author perfectly depicts and explores. Gestures is both very funny and profound, and should be published and read around the world. -John O'Brien, Publisher and Founder, Dalkey Archive Press An excellent psychological novel about a complex relationship between a mother and a son. -Ursula Philips In my opinion, Gestures is the bravest of my texts. First of all, I disappointed readers who liked Niehalo and Miracle, and therefore the joyful mixture of grotesque and humour which masks despair. Secondly, the adopted convention, or, negatively speaking, the psychological and existential nonsense, had its consequences. I ??? the author had nowhere to hide any more. I was not protected by distance, nor helped by irony, nor rescued by language games. It turned out that I was utterly exposed. I was easy to hit. I was easy to defeat. It was easy to laugh at me.