NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

This is a story about struggling with a common human life woven from love, longing, happiness and despair. It is about how often we are not able to be happy with what we have, how often we are not able to appreciate it as it deserves. This is a story about the people who seem to be ordinary, but for the main character are special and the closest ones. The way of storytelling is heartbreaking. After many years the main character, Maurice Hannigan finds out, how much he could changed in his life, if he had told more, if he had shared the love. How much he could. But he failed. His confrontation with life is kind of confession which each of us needs before our own end of life. Although our human experience may be different from experience of the main character, this nostalgic story can be familiar to anyone who has ever come back to memories of childhood and youth, who did love and was loved by somebody, who desired revenge and suffered when regretting wasted opportunities. The main character, when talking about his closest ones, talks about himself, indeed. In this rapid monologue he reveals his pain and longing, thanks for love and care he experienced, remembers decisions which changed everything dramatically, his remorse and regrets which have never left him. But talking to himself, he can talk with the people who are gone away. Even for awhile he can take part in this particular meeting. Alone. Wojewódzka Biblioteka Publiczna im. Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego w Łodzi, Poland