Summary
Jáchym Topol: Night Job
Night Job is a novel between reality and phantasmagoria, a novel about 1968 and growing up. The main characters, thirteen-year-old Ondra and his younger brother Kamil, are taken by their father from Prague to their grandfather in the village on the border of Germany and Poland in front of Russian tanks. In a few months, the boys go through dramatic moments, their father is pursued by the secret police, they compete with village boys in the surroundings of mystical mountains full of bunkers that hide secrets from the Second World War, and in the attic of the grandfather's house there are papers that everyone needs.
Tense, exciting, magical, Topol's Night Job shows the Czech Republic as we do not know it and the revolution of 1968 from the point of view of the boy at the beginning. puberty.
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