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Three Plastic Rooms

A foul-mouthed Prague prostitute muses on her profession, aging and the nature of materialism. She explains her world view in the scripts and commentaries of her own reality TV series combining the mundane with fetishism, violence, wit and an unvarnished mixture of vulgar and poetic language.

Author

Petra Hůlová

Petra Hůlová

Books

Three Plastic Rooms

Petra Hůlová’s novels, plays, and screenplays have won numerous awards, and she is a regular commentator on current events for the Czech press. She studied language, culture, and anthropology at universities in Prague, Ulan Bator, and New York, and was a Fulbright scholar in the USA. Her eight novels and two plays have been translated into more than ten languages. Three Plastic Rooms is her second novel to be translated into English after   All This Belongs to Me  (2009).

Translator

Alex Zucker

Alex Zucker

Books

The Devil's Workshop

Three Plastic Rooms

Alex Zucker’s 2013 translation of Jáchym Topol’s The Devil’s Workshop received an English PEN Award for Writing in Translation, the Typographical Translation Award, and was longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award. His translation of All This Belongs to Me, by Petra Hůlová, won the ALTA National Translation Award. His projects include Heda Margolius Kovály’s Innocence, or, Murder on Steep Street for Soho Press, and Tomáš Zmeškal’s Love Letter in Cuneiform for Yale University Press. Zucker works out of his third-floor apartment in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, NY.

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Jantar Publishing, 2017
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A foul-mouthed Prague prostitute muses on her profession, aging and the nature of materialism. She explains her world view in the scripts and commentaries of her own reality TV series combining the mundane with fetishism, violence, wit and an unvarnished mixture of vulgar and poetic language.

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