Skutečná událost

The narrator, a man of fifty worn down by a safe but dull office job, flies to Oslo just after a tragic shooting, reading a book about the German terrorist group RAF on the plane. Back in Prague he finds that one of his two closest friends has lost his house to a squad of bailiffs over a trivial debt, and that his wife was frightened so badly she ended up in a psychiatric hospital. The three friends meet to support him, and out of light-hearted talk comes a half-joking plan to defend themselves against the arbitrary power of the state. One of them decides to see it through. Fragments of the RAF's history mix with a love story and with the lethargy of Czech life as the tension builds.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

190 pages in the original

Genres

Crime, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Norway, Czechia

First published

2013 by Argo

Author's age

55 when first published

ISBN

9788025707883 (original)