Confidential: A Novel

**A *Literary Hub* Most Anticipated Book**
**The darkly comic tale of three generations of a Jewish family, from one of Poland’s most renowned contemporary authors**
**“A novel sparing only in words and form, not in emotion.”
— *Vogue* (Poland)**
*Confidential* follows on the success of acclaimed photographer, psychologist, and writer Mikołaj Grynberg’s highly acclaimed short story collection, *I’d Like to Say Sorry, but There’s No One to Say Sorry To* , 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.
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.
A masterpiece of concision, *Confidential* expands on one of the stories in *I’d Like to Say Sorry . . .* , tackling themes of memory, trauma, and care, as well as enduring anti-Semitism, with unforgettable power, emotional complexity, and Grynberg’s trademark black humor.