Martin Juhás čili Československo

Martin Juhás is the child of a young Slovak worker and a pampered South Bohemian, cursed by his father's angry seed: he will be driven not by rage but by tantrums. Through the life of this 'bastard', the novel explores the fleeting relations between Czechs, Slovaks, communists, fascists, Nazis, Germans and other minorities from 1918 to 1948, in a state the book sees as a hybrid political construct. Rather than adding to the record of guilt, it builds an invented world out of real and fictional events, an adventure about rivers, confluences and stagnant water set largely in the town of Strakonice and in the Kysuce region of western Slovakia.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

575 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia, Slovakia, 1918–1948

First published

2015 by Premedia

Author's age

38 when first published

ISBN

9788081591808 (original)