Adam, a judge in Communist Czechoslovakia, falls under government suspicion after travelling abroad and being seen with the wrong people. In order to prove his political credentials, he is asked to deliver a verdict of guilty on a suspected murderer.
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"A great novel which transmits in detail the special qualities of life in a nightmare." - Independent
Ivan Klima was born in 1931 in Prague. He was the editor of the journal of the Czech Writer’s Union during the Prague Spring.
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