Confidential

<b>A <em>Literary Hub</em> Most Anticipated Book</b><br><b><br>The darkly comic tale of three generations of a Jewish family from one of Poland's most renowned contemporary authors</b> <br><br>A novel sparing only in words and form not in emotion.<br><b>-<i>Vogue </i>(Poland)</b><br><br><p><em>Confidential</em> follows on the success of acclaimed photographer psychologist and writer Mikołaj Grynberg’s highly acclaimed short story collection <em>I’d Like to Say Sorry but There’s No One to Say Sorry To</em> which was a finalist for numerous awards including Poland’s most prestigious literary prize the Nike a National Jewish Book Award the Sami Rohr Prize and the National Translation Award in Prose for Sean Gasper Bye’s translation.</p>
 <p>This powerful new novella is a darkly comic portrait of a Jewish family in today’s Poland struggling to express their love for one another in the face of a past that cannot and will not be forgotten. The grandfather is a doctor a Holocaust survivor who has now vowed to live only for pleasure. His son born at the start of the war becomes a well-respected physicist but finds himself emotionally unable to attend conferences in Germany despite the benefit it would give his career. The mother is loving but firm though she has a secret habit of attending strangers’ funerals so that she can cry.</p>
 <p>A masterpiece of concision <em>Confidential</em> expands on one of the stories in <em>I’d Like to Say Sorry . . .</em> tackling themes of memory trauma and care as well as enduring anti-Semitism with unforgettable power emotional complexity and Grynberg’s trademark black humor.</p>