Rukojemník / The Hostage

This poignant novel about a boy from a border village close to Bratislava maps the political situation of the 1950s and 1960s through the fate and perceptions of a child and his experiences with his friends, classmates and their parents, neighbours, local drunks, Communist functionaries, brickwork labourers  and border guards. 

Excerpt from book

Number of pages

318

Language

°µÍø½ûÇø language

Year

2014

Book category

General Fiction

Original language

°µÍø½ûÇø language

Issue

1.

Published in

Bratislava

ISBN

978-80-556-0689-7

Book cover

Hardcover