Lit in Translation

Daniel Petr

Born 1975 · Czechia

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    Magnesia Litera 2016 · Shortlist

    Straka na šibenici

    Title translated by AI:“The Magpie on the Gallows”

    Daniel Petr · 40 when first published

    Novel · 263 pages · Coming of age, Family

    AI-generated summary:A boy grows up with his alcoholic father in a crumbling house on the edge of a backwater in northern Bohemia, reading before other children start school yet kept in an almost medieval ignorance full of ghosts and demons.