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Gargling With Tar

By (author) Jáchym Topol, Translated by David Short

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Czechoslovakia, 1968. The Soviet troops have just invaded and, for the young orphan Ilya, life is suddenly turned on its head. At first there is relief that the mean-spirited nuns who ran his orphanage have been driven out by the Red Army, but as the children are left to fend for themselves, order and routine quickly give way to brutality and chaos, and Ilya finds himself drawn into the violence. When the troops return, the orphans are given military training and, with his first-hand knowledge of the local terrain, Ilya becomes guide to a Soviet tank battalion. A position which leads him ever deeper into a macabre world of random cruelty, moral compromise and lasting shame.

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Normally shipped | Available from overseas. Dispatched in aprox 4-8 weeks as local supplier is out of stock
Publisher | Granta Books
Published date | 6 Jun 2013
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 320
Dimensions | 198 x 129 x 20mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 226g
ISBN | 978-1-8462-7162-5
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BISAC | fiction / literary

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