Schweik it easy

Drafted into the Wehrmacht because his Czech father went over to the Germans, Franz is lucky enough to end the war as an American prisoner. Back in Karlovy Vary he looks for the German girl he loved at school and finds her married to a Czech newcomer to the borderland, a match that spared her expulsion. A man without illusions, he always lands on his feet. Through his story the novel follows the zigzags of post-war Czech history, set against life in West Germany; later her son Martin takes over, in a Prague seen by young people who keep the regime at a distance.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

209 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, War, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia, Germany, 1940s–1980s

First published

2011 by Argo

Author's age

59 when first published

ISBN

9788025705179 (original)