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With more than 30 books and 1.5 million copies sold under his belt, Michal Viewegh is quite possibly the Czech Republic’s most popular contemporary author. His books have been published in 15 different languages and have also been adopted into several films. He is perhaps best known for his humorous but revealing book Bliss Was it in Bohemia (Báječná léta pod psa), which centres around the life of a family during the communist era.
Bliss Was it in Bohemia - Viewegh’s breakthrough novel
It is the beginning of the 1960s in Prague and, desperate to save herself from embarrassment, a heavily pregnant woman has just managed to make it to the ending of Samuel Beckett’s famous play Waiting for Godot. She is one of the actors and went into the play believing she was safe. The doctors, after all, had told her the baby was due later, when the theatre season was finished. But she started getting cramps already as she was preparing to go on stage and, now, as the curtains close, she