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Loosely inspired by an anti-Roma pogrom in a small village in western Slovakia in 1928, when until then blameless citizens brutally murdered six innocent neighbours in a night-time lynching. Loosely linked stories view the event through the eyes of direct and indirect victims, witnesses and perpetrators, in a closed community marked by what it did or watched and unwilling to hear about it, let alone own up to it. It is not a documentary, but it builds a mosaic of a historical case that has never been faced: a story of ordinary madness that could happen yesterday, today or tomorrow.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

122 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovakia, 1928

First published

2021 by Koloman Kertész Bagala

Author's age

50 when first published

ISBN

9788089973576 (original)