· City Sister Silver by Jachym Topol, Alex Zucker (Translator) | Editorial Reviews. Paperback $ Ship This Item — Temporarily Out of Stock Online. Buy Online, Pick up in Store Check Availability at Nearby Stores. Temporarily Out of Stock Online. English ISBN City Sister Silver. by. Jáchym Topol, Alex Zucker (Translator) · Rating details · ratings · 36 reviews. Winner of the Egon Hostovský Prize as the best Czech book of the year, this epic novel powerfully captures the sense of dislocation that followed the Czechs’ newfound freedom in More than just the story of its young protagonist—who is part businessman, part gang member, part /5. City Sister Silver is volcanic: Topol's imagination suddenly rips out from under the earth with eruptive force, then cools off in the later pages, giving the reader a chance to relax. The book's most captivating sections, delivered with spontaneous energy and confidence, are actually the digressions — poems in prose, near-mystical visions — while the text of the main story line is constructed in a highly refined .
City Sister Silver by Jachym Topol, Alex Zucker (Translator) | Editorial Reviews. Paperback Jáchym Topol is a novelist, poet, and journalist. His first book of poetry won the Tom Stoppard Prize for Unofficial Literature. the hemmed-in city, the Pearl, a dot on the map behind the wires, had its very own refugees. I'm going to write. City Sister Silver Jáchym Topol Catbird Press, ISBN Caroline Kovtun. In terms of the decade of the s, Jáchym Topol is one of Czech literature's leading protagonists. Son of the playwright Josef Topol, grandson of the writer Karel Schulz and brother of (and lyricist for) Filip Topol, the much-loved frontman of the rock band. City Sister Silver by Jáchym Topol Jachym Topol, translated by Alex Zucker Sestra. The novel begins with the early stages of the Czechoslovak Revolution inas East German refugees are flooding the West German Embassy in Prague in hopes of gaining access to the West. Though Catbird is a relatively small publishing enterprise, it is highly valued.
This ambitious novel, its author's first, and the winner of his native Czechoslovakia's Egon Hostovsky Prize, is a simultaneously panoramic and elliptical portrayal of Prague's defiant counterculture in the immediate aftermath of the `Velvet Revolution.` Topol's protagonist and narrator Potok, a former actor, is an idealistic (and somewhat ingenuous) dropout whose fragmented relationships with a vivid gallery of young intellectuals turned `street people` (including Potok's fiery. City Sister Silver is the title of Alex Zucker 's English-language translation of the novel Sestra by Czech author Jáchym Topol, published by Catbird Press in The Czech original was described by Czech writer Ivan Klíma as "a first attempt at expressing, in a profound and extremely individual way, the feelings of an entire generation," with the central character Potok in a sense embodying the simultaneous feelings of alienation and enormous possibilities of a young adult at the. City Sister Silver is volcanic: Topol's imagination suddenly rips out from under the earth with eruptive force, then cools off in the later pages, giving the reader a chance to relax. The book's most captivating sections, delivered with spontaneous energy and confidence, are actually the digressions — poems in prose, near-mystical visions — while the text of the main story line is constructed in a highly refined manner, a textbook example of literature.
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