Slovak Literature in English Translation

Part critical portrayal of life in present-day Slovakia, part sobering look at the country’s recent past with the euphoria of the Velvet Revolution replaced by growing cynicism, and part chilling depiction of a dystopian future, Ivan Lesay’s ambitious debut novel deftly switches perspectives, letting the reader guess the relations between its three protagonists: the beautiful student Naďa, failing health forces her to confront her moral principles;  the aspiring journalist Jaro, who loses his illusions in the midst of the post-Communist transition; and Adam, a young man man in an uncertain and fluid future world, who who falls down to earth from dizzying technological heights.