Markéta Pilátová

The Hero from Madrid

Trans. Sophia Marzolff
Der Held von Madrid
Der Held von Madrid
Wieser Verlag, 2019, 120 pp
Language: German
Genre: Literary fiction
ISBN: 9783990293362
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A fragile novel about the meeting of a Spanish civil war veteran, František, and Spanish student, Carmen, who is searching for stories about the lives of old, forgotten warriors. In different ways they are both looking for the answer to the same question: what makes a man go to fight in foreign lands? Ideals? The desire for adventure? Love?

Popular author Markéta Pilátová, known for her novels set in Latin America, based this new book on real life stories of Czech volunteers in the International Brigades.

Books from the Tschechishe Auslese edition are published in cooperation with the Czech publishing house Větrné mlýny.

Information about the original Czech edition

Hrdina od Madridu

Other selected published translations (1)

De held van Madrid Dutch

Language: German
Title: Der Held von Madrid
Place: Klagenfurt
Publisher: Wieser Verlag
Year: 2019
Pages: 120
Genre: Literary fiction
Foreign rights
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