Slovak Literature in English Translation

front cover of Pavol Rankov – It Happened on the First of September (or Some Other Time)

It Happened on the

First of September

(or Some Other Time)

by Pavol Rankov

translated by Magdalena Mullek

Slavica Publishers, Bloomington, IN

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

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