Bills

"Pavel Frýbort - Vekslák / read by Jiří Suchý from Tábor / A thrilling story with a criminal plot set in Prague in the late 1980s / Total time: 9 a.m. 45 minutes. A daring probe into the milieu of bakshellers and swindlers of all kinds in socialist Czechoslovakia, which caused a small literary sensation at the time of its publication. Michal Najman, a student of economics, is gradually getting involved in the black trade in Tuzex bills and currencies. He finds himself on a slippery slope and falls deeper and deeper into Prague's criminal underworld. He creates cunning traps for his opponents, but in the end he becomes the victim. The novel Vekslák was first published in 1988 and is still one of the most interesting works describing the secret world of traffickers and the rich in the times of normalisation. "