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A Sensitive Person

A Sensitive Person

Zucker, Alex
Topol, Jachym

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Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters

Literary Fiction

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ISBN10: 0300247222
ISBN13: 9780300247220
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Jan 3 2023
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
A brutally funny, carnivalesque novel about love, death, and survival, from the Czech Republic's greatest living author

Tab, an itinerant Czech actor, travels around Europe on the theater circuit with his partner, Soňa, and their two young sons, attending festivals and performing plays. Confronted with growing resentment toward foreigners, Tab decides to return home to the banks of the Sázava River, southeast of Prague. As soon as they arrive, Tab finds himself falsely accused of a terrible crime and forced to go on the run with his sons. Over the course of their journey, dodging authorities by car, foot, and raft, they encounter a motley cast of allies and enemies. The effects of Tab's sudden reappearance and just-as-sudden disappearance ripple through the community, catalyzing a chaotic chain of events that reaches a final, raucous crescendo.

Hailed as a picaresque romp of black humor and fantasy (Times Literary Supplement), this is an unforgettable novel about discovering sparks of humanity even in the bleakest of places, in which love or the longing to find it lies around every bend.

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