Gargling With Tar by Jáchym Topol, David Short

Gargling With Tar

Jáchym Topol, David Short

311 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

fiction historical reflective slow-paced

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Czechoslovakia, 1968. Soviet troops have just invaded the country and, for the young orphan Ilya, life is suddenly turned on its head. At first there is relief that the mean-spirited nuns who run the orphanage have been driven out by the Communist...

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