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Burying the Season
Na krásné modré Dřevnici
Antonín Bajaja (born 1942)
Translated by David Short
English editions
In EnglishBurying the Season
Jantar Publishing · United Kingdom · 2016 · Hardcover · 426 pages
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In letters to his sister Jana, the narrator returns to their childhood in Zlín just after the war: the town greeting its liberators with bread and salt, a supposed Gestapo man executed at a fête on the football ground, and many respectable families hoping that Masaryk's republic and the prosperity of the Baťa shoe empire would come back. Instead the Iron Curtain falls, Zlín becomes Gottwaldov, and the new regime dispossesses and imprisons "reactionaries", among them the narrator's own family and friends. For a while the children's world floats free of their parents' fears, until history and its half-truths catch up with them too.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 371 pages in the original
- Genres
- Coming of age, Family, Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Czechia, 1945–1950s
- First published
- 2009 by Host
- Author's age
- 67 when first published
- ISBN
9788072943296 (original)
9780993377372 (Jantar Publishing, United Kingdom)