Shortlisted for the 2024 EBRD Literature Prize, sponsored by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development “A superb, mesmerizing novel, reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, set against the background of the permanent Russian threat to Central Europe.”—Misha Glenny, BBC broadcaster and journalistPraise for the Czech Edition: “A picaresque romp of black humor and fantasy, the novel teems with extraordinary characters, but it is also urgently contemporary.”—James A. Hopkin, Times Literary Supplement “As long as Europe inspires such works of art, all is not lost.”—Jorg Plath, Neue Zürcher Zeitung “Fast-paced and dazzling.”—Dennis Wagner, Kultur.21
