Hodiny z olova

The same decisive sentence strikes several families of different generations, countries and classes: a Czech entrepreneur, his wife and adolescent daughter, a Russian diplomat, a French writer, a student of calligraphy, a cook and many others, with their family traumas, midlife crises, burnout and puberty. They are pilgrims and travellers who went to China to tidy up their lives, yet their worlds keep falling apart, and they look for something firm in their past without knowing what to remember. As each of them reaches a breaking point, the novel sets the rise of Chinese power and the fate of its victims against the crumbling values of a Europe in crisis, where an era of resigned apathy and grey consumerist everyday life begins.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

747 pages in the original

Genres

Politics, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

China

First published

2018 by Host

Author's age

50 when first published

ISBN

9788075774743 (original)

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