Sjajne zeznute godine
The debut novel by this extremely popular Czech writer is a humorous story about growing up in communist Czechia, told from the perspective of a boy named Kvid. The first Croatian edition of the book.
Through a family story about a father who, in his midlife crisis, lives in constant fear of the Czechoslovak secret police and emotionally feeds off an adventure with a woman from Pula, a “memory” from a business trip to Croatia, and his son who observes it all, recounts it, and through it grows up himself, both emotionally and sexually, Viewegh presents a humorous and satirical account of the communist period in Czech history. Published in the Czech Republic in 1992, the novel has been translated into a dozen languages, and has been successfully adapted for film and theater.
Two copies are available
