Lit in Translation

Heaven Has No Ground

Nebe nemá dno

Hana Andronikova (born 1967)

Translated by Roman Kostovski

English editions

In English

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Within a short time the narrator loses her father and learns that she has cancer. Rather than follow the expected path, she sets off on a journey that takes her to the Peruvian jungle, where people live by the laws of nature and trust in the power of shamans, to the desert of Nevada and back to the Czech lands. The travels become a journey inward, during which she learns to see loss as a chance to change and to accept that her own end may be near, without fear. The book switches between a terse, raw diary, records of altered states of mind and clipped messages to friends at home.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
290 pages in the original
Genres
Autofiction, Nature (assigned by AI)
Set in
Peru, United States, Czechia
First published
2010 by Odeon
Author's age
43 when first published
ISBN

9788020713377 (original)

9781951508036 (Plamen Press, United States)

9781951508371 (Plamen Press, United States)