Ludvík Vaculík

The Axe

Trans. Mirosław Śmigielski
Siekiera Siekiera
Siekiera
Stara Szkoła, 2015, 290 pp
Language: Polish
Prose

In late Sixties Czechoslovakia, communist ideology is failing. A disillusioned middle-aged journalist retreats from the politics of Prague to the Moravian countryside of his youth. There he rediscovers the complex relationship with his dead father, a communist crusader. But when the journalist is accused of disgracing his father and his proletariat background, he realizes that he, too, is a leader–and that the stakes are now reversed.

Information on the Polish edition here.

Information about the original Czech edition

Sekyra

Siekiera
Stara Szkoła, 2015, 290 pp
Language: Polish