Topol Jáchym: Devil's Workshop

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'The devil had his workshop here in Belarus. The deepest graves are in Belarus. But nobody knows about them'A young boy grows up in Terezin - an infamous fortress town with a sinister past. Together with his friends he plays happily in this former Nazi prison, scouting the tunnels for fragments of history under the careful eye of one of its survivors, Uncle Lebo, until one day there is an accident, and he is forced to leave.Returning to Terezin many years later, he joins Lebo's campaign to preserve the town, but before long the authorities impose a brutal crack-down, chaos ensues, and the narrator finds himself fleeing to Belarus, where fresh horrors drive him ever closer to the evils he had hoped to escape.Bold, brilliant and blackly comic, The Devil's Workshop paints a deeply troubling portrait of two countries dealing with their ghosts and asks: at what point do we consign the past to history? A young man grows up in a town with a sinister history. The concentration camp may have been liberated years ago, but its walls still cast their long shadows and some of the inhabitants are quite determined to not to allow anyone to forget.When the camp is marked for demolition, one of the survivors begins a campaign to preserve it, quickly attracting donations from wealthy benefactors, a cult-like following of young travellers, and a steady stream of tourists buying souvenir t-shirts. The Devil´s Workshop - Jáchym Topol A surreal, comic and disturbing novel about the horrors of history, the commodification of the past, and dark edges of the present z kategorie Knihy | Cizojazyčná literatura | English literature od Granta Books naleznete ne e-shopu KnihyDobrovsky.cz!