Judge On Trial
1st Edition
Published on 30. September 2010
560 pages
978-1-4070-8586-9 (ISBN)
Description
Judge On Trial is Ivan Kl-ma's epic novel about those who stayed in Prague after 1968. When middle-aged judge Adam Kindl is asked not only to try a double murder case but is also expected to find the accused guilty it is his own shattered faith in the political system that is put on trial. To understand the crises he is experiencing in both his professional and personal life, Adam has to confront his own and his country's past which has been mis-shapen first by Nazism, then Stalinism, the false hope of the Prague Spring and the collaborationist regime that followed.
Reviews / Votes
An agonised masterwork about the imaginary paradise of freedom * Mail on Sunday * A War and Peace for the nineties * Cosmopolitan * A great novel which transmits in detail the special qualities of life in a nightmare * Independent *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
File size
0,51 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4070-8586-9 (9781407085869)
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Person
Ivan Kl-ma was born in 1931 in Prague. He was the editor of the journal of the Czech Writer's Union during the Prague Spring. In 1969 he was a visiting professor to the University of Michigan. He returned to Czechoslovakia the following year.
