A Sensitive Person: A Novel

A brutally funny, carnivalesque novel about love, death, and survival, from the Czech Republic’s greatest living author

Tab, an itinerant Czech actor, travels around Europe on the theater circuit with his partner, Soňa, and their two young sons, attending festivals and performing plays. Confronted with growing resentment toward foreigners, Tab decides to return home to the banks of the Sázava River, southeast of Prague. As soon as they arrive, Tab finds himself falsely accused of a terribl...