A tale of fatherhood, its temptations, and the struggle against a culture that let go of men too easily.

The voice says, "You're not made to babysit" and everyone around him nods. The voice says, "Let go, don't get involved, fight for yours. You May Disappear at Any Time." Can you hear it buzzing in your ear? Can you hear its insidious tune?
It is she who has accompanied the narrator of Drute from the moment he learned he would become a father. He made the decision consciously, is his wife's supportive partner and has all the theories about modern masculinity in his little finger. Yet something - an eternal call, unstoppable like a horde of zombies - makes him dream escapist fantasies.

The Drute is a novel mix of novel and personal essay, while also a journey into the "long night" when parenting seems like a sleepy horror body dream. Escape into fiction, beloved youth readings and movies, and finally throwing responsibility on his wife's shoulders, all seem like a response to sinister whispers worthy of the One Ring. Can such temptation be resisted at all?
"I am a man", explains Truteń. But what does this actually mean?

First comes the thought that this is the bizarre story of a father who wants to be a mother. But we quickly realize that Druteń is a cruelly funny and honest denunciation to fathers made by one of them. And at the same time, an intimate story about the expectations we put on ourselves. How glad someone finally wrote this!
Mira Marcinów

Is the father doomed to the life of a drone? That he will come ready, he will not have to change diapers, because it is "babies job", he will not be left alone with the baby until the child turns eight. Or eighteen. The protagonist fights his inner drone, and Jarek Westermark turns this fight into thrilling literature.
Aleksandra Armour

The description above is from the publisher.