Olga WalloI 
Tightrope! [PDF ebook] 
a Bohemian tale (Chinese translation)

Chinese translation of Olga Wallo’s "Tightrope". The narrator of TIGHTROPE, an extraordinary, curiously intellectual small girl, undertakes the demanding and costly burden of comprehending the world. Her father — a peculiar leftist intellectual, and her mother, a neurotic actress, belonging to an old farming family — are more or less social outcasts, who fight for survival. The situation prevailing in Socialist Eastern Europe in the period after the Second World War — setting and inherent part of the fabric of this tale — produces incidents which are funny, cruel, and absurd, eliciting both laughter and compassion.