Three Plastic Rooms

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

A foul-mouthed Prague prostitute muses on her profession, aging and the nature of materialism as imagined in her own reality TV series. In an unvarnished mixture of vulgar and poetic language, the episodes combine the mundane with fetishism, violence and dark humour.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-11-21
Mått:127 x 203 x 17 mm
Vikt:234 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:200
Förlag:Jantar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9780993377396
Översättare:Alex Zucker

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Petra Hůlová’s novels, plays, and screenplays have won numerous awards, and she is a regular commentator on current events for the Czech press. She studied language, culture, and anthropology at universities in Prague, Ulan Bator, and New York, and was a Fulbright scholar in the USA. Her eight novels and two plays have been translated into more than ten languages. 'Three Plastic Rooms' is her second novel to be translated into English after All This Belongs to Me (2009).

Recensioner i media

'Frighteningly honest' - LA Review of Books; 'One of the most important authors writing in Czech today.' - Dr Peter Zusi, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies; 'Wonderfully rough, gloriously evil language' - Die Zeit; One of World Literature Today’s Notable Translations of 2017

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