About The Book:
Author: Karol
Lagodzki
Pub. Date: August 20, 2024
Publisher: Milford
House Press
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 228
Find it: Goodreads, https://books2read.com/CONTROLLED-CONVERSATIONS
In 1982 Soviet-controlled Poland-a time and place of suspicion and
mistrust-when geopolitical forces and violent men descend upon her little town
of Zygmuntowo, Emilia must decide if she's willing to risk prison or worse for
self-respect and for her unexpected love.
A telephone station switchboard operator ordered to monitor the calls she
connects, Emilia overhears a mysterious coded conversation. It continues to
distract her, but not as much as the growing realization that she's falling in
unsanctioned love with her best friend Kalina. Meanwhile, outside the city of
Frombork, Antek, a shipyard engineer and a Solidarity labor union treasurer,
escapes from prison and works to recover the union's money, a task which in
time leads him to Emilia's town. In the metropolitan city of Gdańsk, Roman, a
secret police major, wants the money for himself and dreams of his own escape
and the magical beaches of Rio de Janeiro.
As the only daughter of a local Communist Party apparatchik, Emilia has
enjoyed a sheltered life, but with the advent of martial law, her mother's
influence can no longer shield her. She faces choices she never expected to
make when she discovers her best friend's and lover's involvement with the
resistance. With new allies and enemies in town, the time to choose a side is
now.
In his debut novel, Karol Lagodzki asks: What separates people who
transcend their fear and take risks for the sake of change from the rest of us?
The answer is up to the readers.
Karol Lagodzki, a native of Poland, is an exophonic,
English-language author of fiction. His stories have appeared in Invisible
City, Storm Cellar, NUNUM, Streetlight Magazine, and elsewhere, and
he has won Panel Magazine’s Ruritania Prize for Short Fiction. Controlled
Conversations is his debut novel.
He holds an MFA in creative writing, buys more books than he
can read or afford—usually novels and short story collections, though
he’s been known to pick up an odd book of poetry or accessible
science—and gives back to the literary community by serving as a reader for
several journals. Karol’s non-writing careers have ranged from fixing stucco
while dangling from roofs in Paris to sorting through human cadaver heads
in Florida to developing and marketing medical devices for critically ill
people in the American Midwest, but his true ambition is to remain a
student for as long as he possibly can and make sure more stories make it out
onto the page.
Karol lives halfway down a Southern Indiana ravine with his wonderful, unconventional family, a scurry of squirrels, a passel of possums, a gaze of raccoons, a descent of woodpeckers, and a large dog.
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