Set v Stalinist-era Central Europe, GraveLarks je triumfant intelectual thriller navigácia fragile ambiguity medzi sado-masochizmus, black humor, political satire, murder, and hope. Zderad, a noble misfit, investigates a powerful party figure in 1950s Czechoslovakia. Jeho struggle na blackmail, starvation, a betrayal listy him determined to succeed where others have failed and died. Táto rozšírená úprava zahŕňa podstatné texty a analýzy s ilustráciami by Jan Pinkava, Oscar-winning animator. GraveLarks je fictionalized account of life of French troubadour poet Villon set v 1950s Stalinist Czechoslovakia. Váhabond a "bohemian" Villon sa transponuje do vagabond intelektuálne a "bohemian" Zderad. Singing, drinking, deviant sex, and blackmail ensue. Autor a publikátor Jozef Škvorecky described the text ako "" most original, šokovanie, truthful, a artistically veľmi interesting works of contemporary Czech fiction."&quot ;