School Inspector's Diary

What could you buy at the sweet shop for two crowns during the socialist era? How many Tuzex vouchers did you need for a pair of Lee Cooper jeans? What products did most teenagers long for, and what was considered a fashion faux pas? Which song by Korn and Vondráčková helped you win the boy of your dreams in the eighties? How could a C in Biology and a B in Geography change your life, and how is your cousin's first date connected to buying fruit juice?
You'll discover all this and much more in a book based on the real diary of Monika Gargulová from 1978–1988. The school inspector's diary acts as a time machine, transporting you back to an era when the Rubik's Cube was a hot new item and a trip to Lake Balaton or shopping in the GDR was the ultimate goal. With its authentic text, period photographs, and clippings documenting daily life in the seventies and eighties, this book is a perfect memento of a time you either love, hate, or both at once.
The author currently works as a school inspector. This “diagnosis” already appears in her childhood notes, where, with the meticulousness of a class register, she records who was absent from class, what grade everyone received, and which boy she currently had a crush on.