Controlled Conversations by Lagodzki, Karol
Controlled Conversations by Lagodzki, Karol

Controlled Conversations

"Lagodzki's prose is as powerful as his plot is gripping. A historically astute tale with deep emotional...
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Author: Karol Lagodzki
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Language: English
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Controlled Conversations by Lagodzki, Karol

Controlled Conversations

$30.45
Controlled Conversations by Lagodzki, Karol

Controlled Conversations

$30.45
Author: Karol Lagodzki
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"Lagodzki's prose is as powerful as his plot is gripping. A historically astute tale with deep emotional impact. (...) OUR VERDICT: GET IT." Kirkus Reviews

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 all calls, 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 would you do?



Author: Karol Lagodzki
Publisher: Milford House Press
Published: 08/20/2024
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9798888192061


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2024

About the Author
Lagodzki, Karol: - Karol Lagodzki, a native of Poland, is an exophonic author of English-language 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 literary 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 of his head and 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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