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Georgs Sorgen um die Vergangenheit oder im Reich des heiligen Hodensack-Bimbams von Prag
“Georg's Worries About the Past, or In the Realm of the Holy Testicle Bimbam of Prague” (title translated by AI)
Jan Faktor (born 1951)
English editions
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Socialist Prague, from the fifties to the seventies, has lost its shine, and Georg uses every bit of freedom he can find to break out. In a society rotting at the edges and dissolving from within, he summons all his strength to escape both his mother and his father's stuffy, sticky household, where he has to spend his hated weekends. Where else would little boys dream of becoming dustmen? A witty portrait of a family and of a city, and an erotic coming-of-age story about resistance, dirt and beauty, through which grief at so much wasted life shines.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 636 pages in the original
- Genres
- Coming of age, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Czechia
- First published
- 2010 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch
- Author's age
- 59 when first published
- ISBN
9783462041880 (original)