Andrzej’s new book

Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Andrzej has written a new book, whose cover is below (the title translates to Sisyphus’s Blue Stone. Sadly, it’s unlikely to be translated into English).  I had an idea that this might be a memoir or autobiography, but I knew that Andrzej, who did have a varied and fascinating life (for example, as a newborn his life was saved by a Nazi doctor), could not limit his writing to autobiographical details. I asked him what it was about and when it would appear, and got this reply:

I still don’t know when the book will be published, probably not until the fall. And what it actually is, I don’t really know myself, because it’s supposedly a memoir, partly literature (but with zero fiction), partly essays, because there’s a lot of politics in it. A troublesome mix for a bookseller.

I remember that we were all walking together, and I dropped behind them.  When they walked ahead in a loving pose, I couldn’t resist taking the photo. Andrzej remembered the occasion but got the date slightly wrong:

As I recall, it was the fall of 2013, and we were at the Dobrzyń harbor. We wanted to show you the place where we had scattered Małgorzata’s mother ashes, and the hill where the stronghold had once stood when the Teutonic Order was brought here. You fell behind because you were taking photos of some ducks, and we went ahead, talking about our own concerns.

And while I’m at it, I’ll add my other favorite picture of my surrogate parents, along with the late Cyrus on the porch and Hii at lower left. This was taken on July 24, 2024. Good times.