As the Communist regime ran out of puff in Czechoslovakia, the heady scent of possibility and aspiration began to fill the air. With hard work, could dreams turn into reality in a corrupt, communist country - or did you have to play by the unofficial rules to make it big? Slovak author Peter Pišťanek can tell you via his highly popular novel, Rivers of Babylon, which has been translated into several languages and sold worldwide. It's an often dark, often ridiculous story of dashed hopes and triumph in unwelcoming situations as Gavin Shoebridge found out when he read it.
Behind the book - Rivers of Babylon
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Gavin Shoebridge, Photo: SITA
