It Happened on the
First of September
(or Some Other Time)
translated by Magdalena Mullek
2020
viii + 267 pages, paperback
ISBN 978-0-89357-502-1
Pavol Rankov’s award-winning novel, It Happened on the First of September (or Some Other Time), tells the story
of Czechoslovakia from 1938 to 1968, from the beginning of World War II through the Prague Spring,
by following the lives of three friends, Honza Bízek, who is Czech; Peter Rónai, who is Hungarian; and Gabriel Rosenberg, who is Jewish, and their pursuit of the same girl, Mária Belajová, who is Slovak.
Read an excerpt from It Happened on the First of September
(or Some Other Time) in B O D Y Literature
More About This Title in the Press
- Review by Michal Kopanic in Kosmas, February 2021
- Review by Virginia Parobek in World Literature Today, Autumn 2021
- Review by Elizabeth Stigler in Koreny, Summer 2021
- Review by Sarah Hinlicky Wilson in Slovak Novels in English, January 2021
- “Epic Sweep Without Epic Length” by Michael Stein in Versopolis/Review, October 2020