Seven Days
to the Funeral
translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood
February 2024
488 pages, paperback
ISBN 978-80-246-5633-5
A fictionalized memoir of Ján Rozner and a painstaking account of the week after the death of his wife Zora Jesenská, Seven Days to the Funeral is a historical record of the devastating impact of the period after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. Rozner wrote with brutal honesty not only about himself, his emotions and past experience, but also about key figures in Slovak culture, providing a fascinating cultural history of Slovakia from 1945 to 1972. It is also a moving love story of an unlikely couple. When this compelling work of autofiction was posthumously published in 2009, it catapulted the author, who had died in exile and had almost been forgotten in Slovakia, to posthumous literary fame.
Read an excerpt from Seven Days to the Funeral in BODY Literature
More About This Title in the Press
- “In Remembrance of Time Wasted: A Slovak Memoir on the Impossibility of Escape” by Filip Noubel in Asymptote, May 2024
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“A Scrupulous Account of Post-Prague Spring Life” by Siegfried Mortkowitz in Transitions, April 2024
courtesy of @TransitionsMag - Watch Julia Sherwood read an excerpt from Seven Days to the Funeral on the TranslatorsAloud YouTube channel