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Angel Station
Angel Station | Jachym Topol
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Jachym Topol is the most-translated Czech author of his generation, lauded for his imaginative storytelling and his inventive use of language. Melding fiction and documentary, with a dash of black humor on the side, he zeroes in on the agonies and injustices of the totalitarian past, in his own country and throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Angel Station takes its title from the bustling Metro stop in the Prague district of Sm?chov. Until the gentrification of the late 1990s, it was a rough-and-tumble, working-class neighborhood with a sizeable Roma and Vietnamese population. Topol's novel, in sparse yet poetic language--agilely brought into English by the author's longtime translator Alex Zucker--weaves together the brutal and disturbing fates of an addict, a shopkeeper, and a religious fanatic as they each follow the path they hope will lead them to serenity: drugs, money, and faith.
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Simona
Angel Station | Jachym Topol
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After three weeks of intensive work on the project today is a day for me - a whole day spent in pajamas with a new book.
#autumnreads #bookandPJs

Book in the photo, by Czech author Jachym Topol, isn't in the @Litsy library and the English title is City Sister Silver.

batsy Enjoy ❤️📘 7y
Moray_Reads I've wanted to read this for ages, thanks for reminding me! 7y
Simona @batsy Thanks 😘 7y
Simona @Moray_Reads You are welcome 😘 I like the story, but I don't like the writing style ... 7y
Faibka What a great cover! 7y
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Cydster61
Angel Station | Jachym Topol
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So, a number of years ago I read a book by a Czech author. I responded to a prompt on Facebook from the library with the name and the author. A few days later the translator friended me. Now I've read several books translated by him. Here is the latest.