Description from the English edition:
One night in 1968, on the eve of the Soviet invasion, 13 year-old Ondra and his younger brother Kamil are bundled into a coach bound for their father’s birthplace, a mountainous, forested village in northern Bohemia. But when they arrive it becomes clear that this escape promises its own perils, and the boys find themselves stranded in a rural community riven with petty suspicion and stained by prejudice, a borderland over which fleeing peoples, victims of genocide, and trigger-happy armies regularly tramp. Growing up in this dark, chaotic landscape, the two boys struggle to make a home for themselves, until a series of unexplained deaths push them to make bold decisions to ensure their survival.
Information about the original Czech edition
Other selected published translations (8)
Missions nocturnes French
Nachtarbeit German
Nachtwerk Dutch
Nocna praca Polish
Misiones nocturnas Spanish
Nattarbeid Norwegian
Nattarbete Swedish
Nightwork English