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Guinea Pigs - Couverture souple

Vaculik, Ludvik

 
9781934824344: Guinea Pigs

Synopsis

A clerk at the State Bank befins to notice that something strange is occouring, bank employees are stuffing their pockets with money, only to have it taken by the security guards who search the employees every night and confiscate the cash. There is a discrepancy between what is confiscated and what is returned and the clerk suspects a secret circulation is developing. In his family life the clerk and his children accquire pet guinea pigs which the clerk conducts secret experiments on, teaching them tricks and testing their intelligence.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ludvík Vaculík is the author of a number of number of novels and essay collections. One of the leading literary figures during the Prague Spring of 1968, his manifesto The Two Thousand Words led to his banishment from the Communist Party, the censorship of his writing, and decades of persecution.

Káca Polácková has translated numerous prominent Czech writer in addition to Ludvík Vaculík, including Josef Skvorecky and Bohumil Hrabal.

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