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POST TO UK & IRELAND ONLY<\/p>\n

Author:\u00a0Pavel Vilikovsk\u00fd<\/a><\/p>\n

Translators:\u00a0Julia & Peter Sherwood<\/a><\/p>\n

ISBN: 978-1-908236-37-1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pavel Vilikovsk\u00fd\u2019s novella\u00a0Fleeting Snow<\/em>\u00a0(Letm\u00fd sneh, 2014) is full of gentle\u00a0reminiscences about a life shared, as the narrator looks back on a long marriage and muses on issues ranging from human nature and the soul, to names and the phonetics of Slovak and indigenous American Indian languages. The book deals with the subject of memory loss in an informal, humorous style whose lightness of touch belies the seriousness of his themes.<\/p>\n

The book\u2019s title refers to its recurring central motif: an avalanche whose inexorable descent cannot be stopped once the critical mass of snow has begun to roll, echoing the unstoppable process of memory loss. Five themes or storylines, intertwined in passages of varying lengths, are labelled with letters of the alphabet and numbers in a playful allusion to scholarly works and musical compositions.<\/p>\n

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‘Pavel Vilikovsk\u00fd is recognized as one of the most prominent authors of post-Communist Central Europe. In this creatively structured short novel, he presents, in \u010cimborazka, a digressive, eccentric narrator, reminiscent of Bohumil Hrabal\u2019s loquacious protagonists. The lighthearted tone at the opening belies the depth.’<\/em><\/p>\n

Joe Schrieber,\u00a0Roughghosts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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‘Pavel Vilikovsk\u00fd\u2019s novel is a miracle of origami: an extensive and elaborate narrative unfolds from a very slim volume. . . Fleeting Snow is a reference to unmelted snow in shaded mountain clefts and a nod to the novel\u2019s leitmotif of an avalanche, sweeping away the mind in dementia, languages in depopulation, love in habituation, and so on.’<\/em><\/p>\n

Donald Rayfield,\u00a0Literary Review<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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‘Vilikovsk\u00fd\u2019s prose, in Julia and Peter Sherwood\u2019s translation, is light and graceful; and the tone is more often gently humorous than elegiac. This is an unusual and original work that resists easy categorisation and repays careful reading.’<\/em><\/p>\n

Fiona Graham.\u00a0Riveting Reviews<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

POST TO UK & IRELAND ONLY Author:\u00a0Pavel Vilikovsk\u00fd Translators:\u00a0Julia & Peter Sherwood ISBN: 978-1-908236-37-1 Pavel Vilikovsk\u00fd\u2019s novella\u00a0Fleeting Snow\u00a0(Letm\u00fd sneh, 2014) is full of gentle\u00a0reminiscences about a life shared, as the narrator looks back on a long marriage and muses on issues ranging from human nature and the soul, to names and the phonetics of Slovak …<\/p>\n

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