Three short novels by Jindřich Mann about desire, betrayal and unexpected contexts. A little boy is a lovelorn shadow of an older classmate. He has fallen hopelessly for her charms, regardless of the threat of nuclear war. A polar bear exacts righteous revenge at a seaside resort, and no one knows what secret the bronze head holds. Incredible stories unfold in Prague, in divided Berlin, on a Caribbean island and in a small tin ball - the fantastic "vehicle" James Bond always dreamed of but never got. The unusual literary language combines scriptwriting finesse with a poetics referring to the texts of the author's father Ludvík Ashkenazy.
Czech edition