Jiří Hájíček

Fish Blood

Trans. Dorota Dobrew
Rybia krew Rybia krew
Rybia krew
Książkowe Klimaty, 2015, 526 pp
9788364887239
Language: Polish
Foreign rights:
Dana Blatná Literary Agency
http://www.dbagency.cz
blatna@dbagency.cz
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Prose

With this novel for which he won the Magnesia Litera Book of the Year, Jiří Hájíček continues his line of rural prose, introducing readers to the countryside of Southern Bohemia. In 2008 Hana returns home to the village she grew up in after 15 years abroad. But the place she had imagined settling in, marrying and working as a schoolteacher has become a virtual ghost town. Seeing her father, brother and childhood friends Hana takes a searching look back and tries to heal old wounds.

After his successful 2006 Magnesia litera award winning novel Selský baroko (Rustic Baroque) set in the 1950s, Hájíček again uses the setting of a Czech village to explore very different social changes and its effect on people and communities.

More information about the Polish edition here.

Information about the original Czech edition

Rybí krev

Other selected published translations (2)

Рибя кръв Bulgarian

Riblja krv Serbian

Rybia krew
Książkowe Klimaty, 2015, 526 pp
9788364887239
Language: Polish
Foreign rights:
Dana Blatná Literary Agency
http://www.dbagency.cz
blatna@dbagency.cz
Goodreads rating
82.6% (Rated by 1137 users)