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Ji\u0159\u00ed Orten Award 1987<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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About the Book<\/summary>\n
Original Title<\/strong><\/td>Daleko od stromu<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/strong><\/td>1984<\/td><\/tr>
Publisher<\/strong><\/td>Index, Cologne<\/td><\/tr>
Rerelease <\/strong><\/td>1991<\/td><\/tr>
Publisher<\/strong><\/td>\u010ceskoslovensk\u00fd spisovatel, Prague<\/td><\/tr>
Rerelease<\/strong><\/td>2017<\/td><\/tr>
Publisher<\/strong><\/td>Druh\u00e9 m\u011bsto, Brno<\/td><\/tr>
Pages<\/strong><\/td>148<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n
Rights Sold<\/summary>\n
Germany<\/strong><\/td>Rowolht – Berlin<\/td><\/tr>
The Netherlands<\/strong><\/td>Wereldbibliotheek – Amsterdam<\/td><\/tr>
Norway<\/strong><\/td>Cappelen Damm – Oslo<\/td><\/tr>
Denmark <\/strong><\/td>Rosinante – Kopenhagen<\/td><\/tr>
Sweden<\/strong><\/td>Bonnier Alba – Stockholm<\/td><\/tr>
United States <\/strong><\/td>Twisted Spoon – Prague<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Far from the Tree<\/em> could not officially appear in communist Czechoslovakia, it was published as an underground so-called samizdat edition in 1984. Later, in 1987 it was published by the exil publisher Index in Cologne. Brabcov\u00e1 was the first laureate to receive the Ji\u0159\u00ed Orten Prize for this book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finally, the heavens show some understanding. It opens the floodgates and lets the rain flow. The Flood is here, the cleansing, all-devouring water that sinks Bohemia – in an ocean like the one that last covered the land in the Palaeozoic era. The Flood, the end of mankind, the end of the world, the end of civilisation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For V\u011bra, the first-person narrator and protagonist in Zuzana Brabcov\u00e1’s novel “Far from the Tree”, this comes as no surprise. She has always known that this end is imminent, that her vision of the apocalyptic masses of water that will wash everything away was more than just the “Dada dream” of a mentally disturbed person. And now the time has come. The water has arrived. Faced with the rising tide, “with the water’s edge at her throat”, she closes her eyes and begins to write a long-planned novel: Memories of a Life in Bohemia in the Second Half of the 20th Century.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zuzana Brabcov\u00e1, born in Prague in 1959 and almost exactly the same age as her prophetess V\u011bra, has written the novel of her generation, a message in a bottle from the time of darkness called “normalisation” – and at the same time a bitter general reckoning with the world on the eve of the apocalypse. “Far from the Tree”, this revelation by V\u011bra T., has become a showpiece of Czech literature.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Our generation”, writes Zuzana Brabcov\u00e1 alias V\u011bra, is “autistic, addicted to alcohol, deeply in debt, melancholic in the East, lacking in ambition, objective and dynamic in the West”. It is a generation without hope and without prospects, imprisoned in an “airtight homeland with a replica of a sky”, in a country that has built itself a questionable legitimacy out of silence, lies and crooked legends. A generation “without an anchor, because without a sea”, whose only option is to settle down in the cemetery of disappointed hopes or to leave the country. Nothing new in Bohemia.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Die Zeit<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe language of this novel is extraordinarily poetic. It beautifully incorporates the language of the Bible. But beyond this wildly clever and complex book, you feel very small as a reader.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Trouw<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe poetics in the book are indispensable to describe the hopelessness of real-life socialism.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 NRC<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe book stands brightly next to the other inside views of actually existing socialism that we know from Czechoslovakia. While Hrabal and Kundera, Kliment and Kl\u00edma were witnesses to developments in their homeland (albeit powerless ones), Zuzana Brabcov\u00e1 belongs to a different generation: the generation of those born after, who were too young to consciously experience the dawn of the Prague Spring and its abrupt end.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Die Zeit<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Weit von Baum<\/summary>\n

Rowohlt, Berlin, 1991<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Lea Lustykov\u00e1<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

Ver van de boom<\/summary>\n

Wereldbibliotheek, Amsterdam, 1991<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Magda & Edgar de Bruin<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

Langt fra stammen<\/summary>\n

Cappelen Damm, Oslo, 1992<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Terje B. Englund<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

Langt fra stammen<\/summary>\n

Rosinante, Kopenhagen, 1992<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Karen Gammelgaard<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

L\u00e5ngt fr\u00e5n tr\u00e4det<\/summary>\n

Bonnier Alba, Stockholm, 1993<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Karin Mossdal<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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