Dagmar Urbánková makes the everyday magic of childhood and adolescence visible in her prose novel Umřel Brezhnev (He Died Brezhnev) through a series of memories. With her witty, sharply focused and vividly drawn views of experiences that, from the sober perspective of adulthood, threaten to become a fading memory, Urbánková playfully and densely captures the characteristic features of a life and, coincidentally, a historical epoch in which, as she notes, everyone often wants to have everything behind them as soon as possible.
Czech edition