{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"Angel Station takes its title from the bustling Metro stop in the Prague district of Sm\u00edchov. Until the gentrification of the late 1990s, it was a rough-and-tumble, working-class neighborhood with a sizeable Roma and Vietnamese population. Topol's novel, in sparse yet poetic language--agilely brought into English by the author's longtime translator Alex Zucker--weaves together the brutal and disturbing fates of an addict, a shopkeeper, and a religious fanatic as they each follow the path they hope will lead them to serenity: drugs, money, and faith.\"--"}, "key": "/works/OL19710769W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL21162A"}}], "title": "Angel station", "subject_places": ["Czech Republic"], "subjects": ["Working class men", "Fiction", "Fiction, general", "Czech republic, fiction", "Working class men -- Czech Republic -- Fiction"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [14440401], "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-05-23T20:44:56.175503"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-10-18T04:57:14.498546"}}