The Golem of Trebic

By Larry H arrison

A delegation from the Japanese Communist Party went to Czechoslovakia in 1989, when they feared that East European nations would abandon socialism. They were shown the Synagogue where a monster that locals called the Golem was reputed to have hidden. They discover from Japanese writing on the walls that the Golem was actually a Japanese man from Nagasaki in 1945; it seems that the 'Big Boy' atomic bomb distorted space and time in some way, so that a Japanese martial artist could reappear in wartime Europe. This led to one of the most important assassinations of the Second World War.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Year Zero Books
• Release date: Jan 5, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393184096

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The Golem of Treblic

Year Zero Writers

First published in 2020 in Kindle

This edition January 2021

© Larry Harrison, 2020

The right of Larry Harrison to be identified as the Author of the Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved.

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Acknowledgements

Special thanks are due to my first readers:  Wayne Pearson, Robert Harris, Peter Randall, Nah Dove, Ollie John

About the author

Larry Harrison started life as a cowman and yak keeper for the Tibetan Buddhist community at Karma Kagyu Samye Ling in Scotland.  He left in 1975 to work with disadvantaged children at London’s Clapham Junction.  During his subsequent career, as an academic at the University of Hull, he wrote Tobacco Battered, a BBC radio feature, and over fifty journal articles, academic books and book chapters, before writing fiction when he retired.  His previous novels are Glimpses of a Floating World (2009) and The Lemon-Squash Continental Hotel (2019).

THE GOLEM OF TREBIC

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