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Year of the Frog
Set in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, in the 1980s, Martin Simecka's stunning first novel, "The Year of the Frog, portrays a young man struggling to come to terms with his circumstances in the last days of communist dictatorship. Milan, the son of a former party official now imprisoned for dissident activities, is barred from the university despite the fact that he is a brill...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
June 13th 1996
by Touchstone Books
(first published 1985)
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Dig the book. It's written in pretty plain prose, and if you get the Peter Petro translation it reads pretty smoothly. It's basically a tale about a young Czech man named Milan in love with a girl who studies at a university. He can't go to university himself because his father was a communist, and the Czech police are in effect making him pay for his father's sins. In attempting to deal with his frustration, he gets married, trades jobs, ends up in prison, has an affair...the whole nine yards....more
A somewhat odd book that I had trouble getting into.
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