Prague journalist Tomáš is in crisis. His long marriage is falling apart, he is trying and failing to break up with a young lover, and his position as editor at an investigative magazine is under threat. Then the Russians invade Ukraine, and Tomáš and his peers get to revisit memories of the time before the Velvet Revolution. An interview with writer Jáchym Topol about his brilliant new novel Hell Does Not Exist, which raises urgent questions about relations between the personal and the political, how to chase away ghosts of the past, and where to go for a sense of security in a turbulent world.
Jáchym Topol, moderation Tilman Spreckelsen
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Halle 3.0 / C123
