Nebožtík

Štěpán Hrdina is a young, bored, spoilt writer, a cynical poet and poseur hungry for likes, unable to step out of the micro-world of his ego: a living corpse craving strong emotions that might give him, for a moment, a sense of real life. He fights boredom with long aimless walks, casual sex, cappuccinos, hours in the bath and endless films. His journey leads from the country of fjords, where a strange authority takes children from their parents and the mass murderer Breivik sits in prison, through Auschwitz to Budapest, the city where Raoul Wallenberg saved thousands of lives during the Second World War.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

130 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Norway, Poland, Hungary

First published

2017 by Akropolis

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9788074701542 (original)