Až se ti zatočí hlava

Czech Republic, January 2018: Miloš Zeman has just been re-elected president, it is freezing outside, citizens pour their hearts out on social media, and the burnt-out commentator Jan 'Johan' Souček is unwillingly leaving the newsroom of an unnamed daily. Shaken by helplessness, rage and fear, he reads a sneering comment under his article and makes one absurd, desperate decision. So begins a darkly grotesque story in which two men from opposite camps of a divided society collide, and the clash between virtual fantasising and real pain, blood and fists drives a tale that moves between satire, horror, psychodrama and road movie, and an existential crisis marked by the fear of nothingness and the urge to escape.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

253 pages in the original

Genres

Satire, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia, 2018

First published

2020 by Argo

Author's age

54 when first published

ISBN

9788025731321 (original)