Klikař Beny

The shabby, crumbling world of workers' shanty colonies, pubs and scrap collection points in 1980s Prague, peopled by bizarre characters. Young Beny leaves home to escape his violent father and finds refuge at the scrapyard of the eccentric 'Manufacturer'. With Hany, an invalid, Julča, a job-hopper, and his brother Víťan, he forms an odd family in which everyone has secrets and dark sides, and a hidden kindness too. Beny needs to get out of compulsory military service, earn some money, find a job and a place to live and, above all, time for his one passion, photography. Under the socialism of the early 1980s, what seems simple today meant an adventure on, or rather beyond, the edge of the law.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

363 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia, 1980s

First published

2021 by Host

Author's age

56 when first published

ISBN

9788027507405 (original)