Melville House has just brought out Mariusz Szczygieł's Gottland: Mostly True Stories from Half of Czechoslovakia -- see their publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk -- and at English PEN they now have an excerpt from a similar collection by Szczygieł, Playing Vietnamese, 'on the strange case of a Vietnamese literary prodigy in the Czech Republic who proved that fact is stranger than fiction'.
Of course, readers of the Literary Saloon are already familiar with this unusual case, since I mentioned it on these pages over four years ago .....
Of course, readers of the Literary Saloon are already familiar with this unusual case, since I mentioned it on these pages over four years ago .....