Lit in Translation

Václav Kahuda

Born 1965 · Czechia

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Books on prize lists

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    Magnesia Litera 2015 · Shortlist

    Vítr, tma, přítomnost

    Title translated by AI:“Wind, Darkness, the Present”

    Václav Kahuda · 49 when first published

    Novel · 715 pages · Autofiction, Historical, Politics

    AI-generated summary:A narrator sets out to solve a family mystery from the 1940s, when the German secret police took his grandfather, a gifted engineer, to the Reich and tried to make him collaborate.