- Anasoft litera 2009 · Finalist
It Happened on the First of September (or Some Other Time)
Stalo sa prvého septembra (alebo inokedy)
Pavol Rankov (born 1964)
Translated by Magdalena Mullek
English editions
In EnglishIt Happened on the First of September (or Some Other Time)
Slavica Publishers · United States · 2020 · Paperback · 267 pages
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The story of three friends from Levice, a town in southern Slovakia whose people never move yet are shaken by every turn of history: Peter feels Hungarian, Ján Slovak, and Gabriel does not deny his Jewish origins. On 1 September 1938 they meet at the town's swimming pool and decide to compete for the beautiful Mária. Their contest goes on for the next thirty years, and their individual lives become frail boats in the storm of history: the Munich Agreement, the Vienna Award, the Second World War, the anti-Jewish laws, German occupation and the arrival of Soviet troops, post-war expulsions, the communist coup of February 1948, the show trials of the 1950s, the attempt at reform and the Soviet invasion of August 1968. It is a novel about love, as far as a higher power allowed it.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 327 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Love, War (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Slovakia, 1938–1968
- First published
- 2008 by Kalligram
- Author's age
- 44 when first published
- ISBN
9788081010699 (original)
9780893575021 (Slavica Publishers, United States)
- More
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