No Saints or Angels

First edition in English. 8vo. 267pp. Grey cloth boards lettered in silver to spine.

Translated from the Czech by Gerald Turner. Originally published as Ani svatí, ani andělé by Hynek, Prague, in 1999. A Washington Post Best Book of 2001. A divorcée in the throes of a love affair with a man fifteen years her junior, has to cope with a rebellious teenage daughter who is being tempted by the new-fangled drug culture. An arresting examination of the cultural and personal havoc wreaked in post-Stalinist Prague in the aftermath of the Velvet Revolution. "[A] Czech master at the top of his game." –The Boston Globe