Angel station
By: Jáchym Topol ; translated from the Czech by Alex Zucker
Contributors: Zucker, Alex, translator
Edition: First Dalkey Archive edition.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9781943150120
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Working class men; Fiction
Work titles: Anděl
Description: "Angel Station takes its title from the bustling Metro stop in the Prague district of Smíchov. 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."--
Notes: Translation from the Czechoslovakian of: Anděl.