Zima na ruky

Pavol Piles, a teacher nicknamed Paličko, looks after his ageing, failing mother, who mixes up words and quietly longs to visit her own mother's grave, which has to be moved to make way for modern development. His memories of growing up in Piešťany in the 1950s, carefree boyhood games and pranks, are tinged with grief over the tragic death of his brother, for which he carries guilt that is not his, and with the passing of friends and loves. Among them is Tamara, his childhood friend, who first had to nurse her mother and father before she had a daughter, now working in the United States. When he visits her in America, the two look in each other for the opposite of cold: the warmth of human touch.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

174 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovakia, United States, 1950s and the present

First published

2006 by Slovart

Author's age

60 when first published

ISBN

8080852006 (original)