The collection of the best of Petr Šabach's work, supplemented by previously unpublished short stories, was prepared by writers Emil Hakl and Václav Kahuda, with a foreword written by the author's friend Zdeněk Svěrák.
The literary world of Petr Šabach is a kingdom where instead of a throne there is a pub chair, regulars sit around the table and a knighthood is awarded for a good story. Life here is viewed through a pint of beer to give it a suitably comic edge and a nostalgic mood, and it is drunk briskly so that the foam doesn't fall off. Petr Šabach's authorial style represents the most basic form on which literature is based - an engagingly told and punctuated story, which he has mastered with a distinctive style, authenticity and exaggeration. Šabach thus sat at the same table as Jaroslav Hašek and Bohumil Hrabal. He wrote dozens of short stories and novels, some of which were adapted into films and became a widely shared account of the end of normalisation and the suddenly free 1990s.
Czech edition