![]() The book really swings into rhythm with the 1948 Soviet “liberation” of Czechoslovakia and the formal installation of communism (“social democracy” in Soviet-speak). ![]() Rankov is factually accurate on all accounts. And no need to factcheck any details in this one (which is quite a feat in itself). Surely, September is his masterwork to date. Rankov, a prolific writer, captured the 2009 EU Prize for Literature for this work in December 2020 he was awarded the Prix du Livre Européen. There is a rather thin love story that runs through the text, but it works well as a continuing thread through regime changes during the thirty-year span. Intertwined throughout all the political upheaval are the lives of four young friends, each depicted to represent a different nationality within Czechoslovakia: Jan, a Czech Gabriel is Jewish Peter is from Hungary and Maria, from Slovakia. For each year, a fouror five-page vignette relays the historical facts of the country along with its storyline. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Ġ from 1938 to 1968. ![]()
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