nowadays is International Women’s Day,and this newly translated work from an award-winning Czech writer is a passionate call to protect women everywhere from violence – in the shape of a teenager’s account of her gang rape By Radka Denemarková and Julia and Peter Sherwood for Translation Tuesdays by Asymptote, part of the Guardian Books Network
We label International Women’s Day with an extract from the latest novel by the award-winning Czech writer and Nobel laureate Herta Mller translator Radka Denemarková. Disguised as a crime mystery set in Prague and mixing fact and fiction, or A Contribution to the History of Joy (Přspěvek k dějinám radosti,2014) is a passionate indictment of all forms of violence against women everywhere, spanning the past 70 years of history. In the extract below Denemarková puts herself in the shoes of a victim of an notorious Manchester gang that groomed vulnerable teenagers and forced them into prostitution.
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