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«Mercedes Benz» by Pavel Gulle is a story about how a seemingly banal desire to learn to drive a car draws the author, and at the same time the reader, into a dizzying journey through epochs, cultures, spaces and biographies. There is a non-trivial love story, a family saga, and interesting literary parallels - mainly with the works of Bohumil Hrabal. The novel is full of light nostalgia and warm humour. Old photographs, old steam trains, old cars, incredible time-space loops - all the sweetness and bitterness of Central European history under one cover.

For the Ukrainian reader, it is interesting primarily for the pre-war excursions to Lviv and Galicia, in particular, the detailed scenes of the Bolshevik annexation of Lviv in 1939 are striking.

The book also includes «Trunk» — - stories that are plotwise related to the novel.