Jedním okem

Looking back at her earliest years, the author tells the story of a girl born out of wedlock to a woman who runs a small dressmaking workshop in Kyjov. Little Eliška meets the adult world full of trust, hoping to find a safe place in it. The war and its aftermath stay in the background, because for a small child the people around her matter far more. She takes her mother's punishments without protest, just as she accepts that one of her eyes is diseased and needs surgery, and she longs to belong somewhere, a longing answered when she becomes close to the family of her nursery-school teacher.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

124 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia, 1940s

First published

2007 by Triáda

Author's age

64 when first published

ISBN

9788086138879 (original)