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It is a novel about growing up - that is, buying adulthood at the price of one’s childhood. Set in contemporary Warsaw, Poland.
A child, a boy, moves to the city to find his way through college. Upon the arrival he gets lost and overwhelmed. And lonely.
He finds his first woman and he loses her. He finds a friend and he admires him. Months pass. With every day away from his parents’ home the boy changes, bit by bit.
He tries his luck at work. He succeeds, he fails, he gets disenchanted. Then he gets fired, only to find another job shortly after. An equally disappointing one.
He meets a girl and he falls for her. She falls for him, too. Their story is not a love story, though. After a month they agree to part. The life goes on.
With a help of his friend he peels himself of the childish naïveté - but he has nothing to replace it with. He falls under a spell of an older businessman. He works long hours for free, paid only in hope and life experience. At the end, he loses a lot of the former to gain some of the latter.
The girl finds him again. But he’s not sure if he wants to be found. Neither, it turns out, is she. They’re both insecure twenty-one-year-old children of the twenty-first century.
Poland had herself been a teenage mother when they were born. She did not avoid making mistakes while raising them up.
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