A novel mapping the history of the border region, set in Vimperk in 1987
The novel is set at the time of the onset of perestroika, the visit of Mikhail Gorbachev to Prague, but also the growing movement, the internal political struggle within the Communist Party and the tragic echoes of the Soviet invasion.
The commander of the local VB station is preparing for the visit of an important political guest before the Šumava Youth Festival and is trying to prevent any provocations. His biggest risk is the search for a young man whose father was shot by the Soviet army almost twenty years ago, and who suspects that it was not an accident but a perfectly prepared murder. And the evidence that this was the case is suddenly and strangely increasing...
The hangover of the Sumava summerby Martin Sichinger, a two-time winner of the Johann Steinbrener Prize awarded at the Šumava litera festival, is the author's fifth novel set in the Czech border region.
