April
E-book, Czech
April
The story of a guarded city where the atom and human characters are split
Petr Weiner is a talented nuclear physicist who is eager for a career. But he lives in socialist Czechoslovakia, where a person with a clean slate doesn' t get far. Especially when he doesn' t cooperate as he should. Weiner is in danger of his last hopes for a scientific career being permanently extinguished. Unless he accepted the StB' s offer — to go to the Dubna nuclear research center in the Soviet Union and bring back information that the secret service might be interested in. However, the unpredictable world of Dubna dictates its own rules.
They wrote about the book:
The author alternates elements of classical prose with an almost reportage style and manages this balancing act brilliantly. The story holds up a new mirror to evil, which the reader might think they already know in its entirety.
- editorial staff of Host publishing house
I spent an important part of my childhood in this city. The world I discovered there was completely different from the conditions in which I spent the rest of my life. The story I am telling is inspired by facts and eyewitness testimonies, which I have literary adapted to paint a picture of life and characters in Dubna at that time.
- Veronika Büchler, author
Veronika Büchler
(born. 1980) comes from Brno. She works as a psychologist and psychotherapist in private practice in Prague. She spent part of her childhood at the Dubna Nuclear Research Center, where her father worked as a laser equipment engineer. She entered the literary scene with the book Taky sem byla punk (2001). She published several short stories in the magazine Host.
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