Domov

The novel is set in the recent yet long-forgotten 1990s, in a world without mobile phones, the internet or supermarkets, and runs from one spring to the next at the end of the decade. Its hero Mucha, a 'small businessman in letters' and newspaper hack, moves with his wife, frustrated by maternity leave and flirting with feminism, and their three-year-old son from a sunny flat on a Bratislava housing estate into a gloomy flat in the centre. The move opens a tangle of bad and still worse situations: the homeless and beggars, a few occasional friends, and above all employers and creditors who keep reminding him of debts, driving him into headlong escapes that solve nothing, since there is nowhere and no one to run to. The book is dedicated to all debtors and creditors.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

220 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovakia, 1990s

First published

2005 by Koloman Kertész Bagala

Author's age

37 when first published

ISBN

8089129676 (original)