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Title: Badly translated
Review: After I read this book in the original Czech, I was hoping it would come out in English so that I could give a copy or two to friends and relatives. However, when the translation did come out, I was so disappointed that I never bought it. The translator seemed to ignore the style of the original completely and rendered the novel more or less the way he wanted it to sound. The translator is supposed to be invisible, if that's possible, but this one most definitely is not.Please realize that what you are reading has only the most remote connection to the way Klíma actually wrote the book. The translator basically turned it into a showplace for himself.
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