Jen šmouha po nebi

Through dreams, notes on the present and memories, an intimate story follows Czech history from the end of the war to today. A band of people stigmatised by the new order is driven into a small border town whose former population has been expelled. Out of this shabby crowd, which still forms a kind of idyllic community, the 'new socialist' town gradually emerges, with its ordinary virtues and faults and the warped perspectives of early socialism. Against the brutality of the era stand human understanding, real feeling and compassion, and the story comes full circle as its hero returns to the place where it began.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

212 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia, 1945 to the present

First published

2013 by Torst

Author's age

71 when first published

ISBN

9788072154487 (original)