by Pavel Kohout · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420645506
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«La larga ola tras la quilla» is the novel by Pavel Kohout, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (376 pages, in Spanish).
Silvia and her father-in-law Martin Burian travel on the cruise ship M/S Harmonie across the Pacific. There they meet the student Sigfried Gross and his eccentric great-aunt Margarete Kämmerer. A romance blossoms between the young people; the older ones relive wounds from the Second World War. With irony and humour, Kohout interweaves past, guilt and memory.
Novel translated into Spanish by Fernando de Valenzuela Villaverde; part of the Alianza Literaria collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in stories of historical memory and European conflicts.
Pavel Kohout is a Czech and Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, a Prague Spring participant and dissident in the 1970s until he was not allowed to return from Austria. He was a founding member of the Charter 77 movement.
