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Rivers of Babylon (Hardcover)

by Peter Pist'anek (Author), Donald Rayfield (Editor), Peter Petro (Translator)
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  • Hardcover: 259 pages
  • Publisher: Garnett Press (6 Nov 2007)
  • ISBN-10: 0953587843
  • ISBN-13: 978-0953587841
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 15.6 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars If you only read one novel from the post-Soviet bloc..., 5 Feb 2008
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...make sure it's this one. This novel should have been required reading for Western businessmen venturing East to make a killing in the early post-Communist period. Sadly, for many of them, this translation comes too late. However, those watching the oil- and gas-powered rise of Putin's Russia may want to take note... Rivers of Babylon is a brutally, blackly hilarious parody rags-to-riches tale of a Slovak Hungarian peasant, Rácz, who arrives in Bratislava and gets a job as a stoker in a hotel. He realises the power and wealth he can amass simply by turning off people's heating, and steadily builds an indomitable business empire. Anyone who spent time in the early nineties in an East European hotel car park will recognize the charming cast of money-changers, pimps, prostitutes, hucksters, chancers, gangsters, ex-secret policemen and creepy Western businessmen, who assist in Rácz's rise to power or perish. Pist'anek does not moralise, however, but provides an exuberant, savage cartoon, celebrating the power of story-telling and the wicked imagination of the human being unhampered by physical timidity or moral inhibitions. You will be left wanting more - and there are two more volumes in the pipeline, as long as no one cuts us off...
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