Gargling With Tar

About the Authors

JÁCHYM TOPOL is one of the best-known Czech writers of today. Famous in his youth as an underground activist, poet and songwriter, he was an early signatory of Charter 77, and published a samizdat literary magazine Revolver Revue. After the1989 Velvet Revolution he co-founded the weekly newspaper Respekt. his first novel, City Sister Silver, was a huge success both in the Czech Republic and internationally. Gargling with Tar is his fourth novel. All his novels have been translated into many languages. Jáchym Topol lives in Prague.

DAVID SHORT has taught Czech in London since 1973. his translations include Pirouettes on a Postage Stamp by Bohumil Hrabal, Notebooks from New Guinea by Vojtech Novotny and Dad Takes Goal Kicks by Jiří Pokorný. he is currently working on a new translation of RUR by Karel Čapek.