Opportune Moment, 1855

The nineteenth-century founding of "free settlements" in the Americas serves as a starting point for the new novel by popular Czech author Patrik Ouredník. Simultaneously satiric and philosophical, The Opportune Moment, 1855, opens with an Italian anarchist''s missive to his noble former mistress, an impassioned rejection of all of Europe''s latest and greatest advancements, from the Enlightenment...