The True Way Out

Author(s): Patrik Banga
Language: English
Year of publication: 2024
Page Range: 248
ISBN: 978-3-949607-40-0
E-ISBN-13: 978-3-949607-41-7

Subject(s): Literary fiction, intellectual history

Summary/Abstract:

The time: 1990s. The place: Prague’s Žižkov district. A neighbourhood where hopelessness, drugs, alcohol, and fights are the everyday normal. Growing up in the local Roma community means you are destined to be just another misfit. However, the story of journalist Patrik Banga is strikingly different. It captures his life’s journey from the Roma quarter to becoming a journalist in the Czech media. In a raw and very open style it depicts the reality of a teenage boy who encounters rejection, criminalization, racism, and police brutality at an early age. And he’s looking for a real way out.

Translated by Isabel Stainsby