by Jáchym Topol
The translation of this book was supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.
This book has been selected to receive financial assistance from English PEN’s Writers in Translation programme supported by Bloomberg. English PEN exists to promote literature and its understanding, uphold writers’ freedoms around the world, campaign against the persecution and imprisonment of writers for stating their views, and promote the friendly co-operation of writers and free exchange of ideas. www.englishpen.org
This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogues are products of the author’s imagination and not to be construed as real. The author’s use of names of actual persons, living or dead, and actual places is incidental to the purposes of the plot and is not intended to change the entirely fictional character of the work.
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ISBN 978 1 84627 542 5
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Epigraph
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3
4
5
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7
8
9
10
11
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13
Author’s Acknowledgements
Translator’s Afterword
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