Original title: Truchlivý Bůh
Genre: novel
Publisher:
Petrov 2000
ISBN: 80-7227-077-X
Pages: 112
Awards:
the Dutch translation by Tieske Slim longlisted for European Literature Prize 2020
Foreign editions:
Hungarian (Európa, 2003, Koloszár Péter), German (Ammann Verlag, 2005, Kathrin Liedtke and Milka Vagadayová), French (Gallimard, 2006, Nathalie Zanello-Kounovsky), Slovenian (Didakta, 2009, Nives Vidrih), Croatian (Profil knjiga, 2010, Branka Čačković), Dutch (Kleine Uil, 2019, Tieske Slim)
Rights sold to:
Syria (Dar Al Hiwar)
“After finishing this book, I realised that it is actually a film story for Stanley Kubrick or Roman Polański. But Kubrick is already in the other world and Polański is even more difficult for me to reach. The most important thing is the fact that this story of a middling librarian, who experiences something terrible, was written as a tribute to my two Masters – Milan Kundera and J. L. Borges”. – Jiří Kratochvil
"With Despondent God, Jiří Kratochvil has strengthened yet further his leading position in contemporary Czech prose."
Jaromír Slomek, Lidové noviny
