{"product_id":"angel-station-9781943150120","title":"Angel Station","description":"\u003cp\u003eJachym Topol is the most-translated Czech author of his generation, lauded for his imaginative storytelling and his inventive use of language. Melding fiction and documentary, with a dash of black humor on the side, he zeroes in on the agonies and injustices of the totalitarian past, in his own country and throughout Central and Eastern Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAngel Station\u003c\/i\u003e takes its title from the bustling Metro stop in the Prague district of Sm chov. Until the gentrification of the late 1990s, it was a rough-and-tumble, working-class neighborhood with a sizeable Roma and Vietnamese population. Topol's novel, in sparse yet poetic language--agilely brought into English by the author's longtime translator Alex Zucker--weaves together the brutal and disturbing fates of an addict, a shopkeeper, and a religious fanatic as they each follow the path they hope will lead them to serenity: drugs, money, and faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTopol, Jachym:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jáchym Topol is the author of novels, poetry, stories, dramas, screenplays, reportage, and song lyrics. His novel \u003ci\u003eThe Devil's Workshop\u003c\/i\u003e won an English PEN Award for Writing in Translation and was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Best Translated Book Award (Fiction). His novel \u003ci\u003eCity Sister Silver\u003c\/i\u003e was featured in \u003ci\u003e1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the winner of the Vilenica International Literary Prize (Slovenia), and two of the most prestigious Czech literary awards, the Tom Stoppard Prize and the Jaroslav Seifert Prize.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eZucker, Alex:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Alex Zucker's translations include three previous books by Jáchym Topol--\u003ci\u003eThe Devil's Workshop\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCity Sister Silver\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Trip to the Train Station\u003c\/i\u003e--as well as novels by Tomás Zmeskal, Magdaléna Platzová, Josef Jedlička, Heda Margolius Kovály, Petra Hůlová, Patrik Ouředník, and Miloslava Holubová. From 2014 to 2016, he served as cochair of the PEN America Translation Committee. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50365953966354,"sku":"9781943150120","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_661d6687-5e9b-4c5a-8a5c-4f517d32d3c8.jpg?v=1728468213","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/angel-station-9781943150120","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}