Skutecna cesta ven  A Real Way Out 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2509559B

  Author(s)

  Banga, Patrik

  City

  Brno 

  Country

  Czech Republic 

  Language

  Czech 

  ISBN

  9788027513420 

  Date of Publication

  2023 

  Publisher

  Host  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  215 

  Subject

  Biography / Memoirs

  Subject

  Ethnic Studies / Ethnology

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Banga, Patrik

  Publisher

  Host  

• Description

  A Real Way Out Winner of the Magnesia Litera award for Debut of the Year. How difficult was it to escape from the stereotypes, prejudices and dramatic experiences of the Roma community in Prague's Žižkov district in the 1990s? The real way out is the real story of journalist Patrik Banga, who describes how he got from the Roma quarter to the ranks of journalists in the leading Czech media. The story begins in the 1990s in Prague's Žižkov, which at that time was not as ambitious a neighborhood as it is today. The place is full of despondency, drugs, alcohol, prostitution and fights, and growing up in the local Roma communities means only one thing — to be destined for the life of another misfit. In a raw and merciless way, Banga describes the reality of a Roma adolescent boy who already at an early age encounters rejection, criminalization, racism and police brutality. And he's looking for a real way out. He stumbles many times, he loses many times. The author is fundamentally convinced that every person is an individual, and in his biography he openly describes successes and failures, an internal clash with Roma culture or an effort to break out of the "Roma" box.