A Sensitive Person

A Novel

A Sensitive Person
Jachym Topol, Alex Zucker
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h235 x 156mm - 384pg
10 Jan 2023 US
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9780300247220
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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, Sona, 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 Sazava River southeast of Prague. No sooner has he arrived than Tab finds himself falsely accused of a terrible crime and forced to go on the run with his two sons. Over the course of their peregrinations, dodging authorities by car, foot, and raft, they encounter a motley cast of allies and enemies. 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 finding the sparks of humanity even in the bleakest of places, in which love or the longing to find it lie around every bend.

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Jachym Topol is a novelist, poet, dramatist, and journalist. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages. He lives in Prague. Alex Zucker has translated novels by such Czech authors as Topol, Bianca Bellova, Petra Hulova, and Tomas Zmeskal. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780300247220
Published: 10 Jan 2023
Published In: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 235mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 384

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