Děvčátko, rozdělej ohníček

Andrej Dunka is a Roma boy whose story starts in a settlement at Poljana, close to the Soviet border, and soon moves with his family to Žižkov in Prague. There they send the child out to steal. He passes through one institution after another, all meant to make him fit in, rides trains back and forth across the country and meets all sorts of people. His life stands for the post-war migration of Roma from eastern Slovakia to the Czech lands, and the novel shows his family's difficult ways without romance or excuses, along with the boy's hopeless struggle against his fate.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

254 pages in the original

Genres

Migration, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovakia, Czechia

First published

2005 by Knižní klub

Author's age

40 when first published

ISBN

9788024214832 (original)