Martin M. Simecka
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The Year of the Frog: A Novel
Martin M. Simecka, Peter Petro
Set in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, in the 1980s, Martin Simecka’s stunning first novel, The Year of the Frog, portrays a young man struggling to come to terms with his circumstances in the last days of communist dictatorship. Milan, the son of a former party official now imprisoned for dissident activities, is barred from the university despite the fact that he is a brilliant student and an extraordinary runner. Forced to work, Milan takes a series of menial jobs—first as a surgical orderly in a hospital, next as a clerk in an under-stocked hardware store,…
