Konvália

The story of the author's grandparents. Vali Reiszová, a Jewish girl, met the Franciscan friar Rudolf Dilong, a prominent Slovak poet, in interwar Malacky. During the Holocaust she became the mother of his child and escaped deportation largely thanks to her lover. After the war Dilong secretly emigrated overseas, and Valéria, in shock, was left alone with the child, facing persecution by the state for having been the secret companion of a leading poet of the wartime Slovak State.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

130 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Love, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovakia

First published

2016 by Slovart

Author's age

49 when first published

ISBN

9788055624846 (original)