An extraordinary adventure of a night watchman in the National Gallery. The devilish temptation of little Pete on the last day of school. A frenzied ride in a Viennese brothel. A family feast cut from the black-humour comedies of the New Wave. In short prose texts, published together for the first time, Petr Šabach presents himself as a master of the Czech short story. His narrative commitment, his sense of the magic of spoken language and the poetics of everyday life place him alongside such giants of the genre as Jan Neruda, Jaroslav Hašek and Bohumil Hrabal.
Czech edition