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Summary

Awesome first novel by an immigrant Czech writer about a professor who is sent on a one-man space mission. Filled with satire and poignancy, this sci-fi with a twist story is written in the first person with musings on culture (and food and alcohol!), family, Czechoslovakia's turbulent history, politicians, and corruption, love, loneliness, sanity and insanity, alien life forms, and ultimately what it means to be human.