Nikdy nebylo líp

A band of ageing pub brothers, IT people, graphic designers and philosophers of life, are the children of the 1989 revolution, now Prague intellectuals growing old. They comment ironically and bluntly on what goes on inside and around them, fall in love as they did in their youth, roam the city, and write besotted text messages in worn-out bars. In the layering of their pub talk, a loss of meaning shows through, along with their futile search for it in work and in love. The joy of living is infectious until reality breaks the world of illusions they inhabit, and something is badly missing, even though, as they say, it has never been better.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

279 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia

First published

2016 by Fra

Author's age

58 when first published

ISBN

9788075210180 (original)