Angel Station (Czech Literature)

by Alex Zucker (Translator), Alex Zucker (Translator), Jachym Topol (Author)

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  Paperback
  2017

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  Angel Station takes its title from the bustling Metro stop in the Prague district of Smchov. Until the gentrification of the late 1990s, it was a rough-and-tumble, working-class neighborhood with a sizeable Roma and Vietnamese population. Topols novel, in sparse yet poetic languageagilely brought into English by the authors longtime translator Alex Zuckerweaves together the brutal and disturbing fates of an addict, a shopkeeper, and a religious fanatic as they each follow the path they hope will lead them to serenity drugs, money, and faith.