Imago. Ty trubko!

The novel follows Houžvička from a childhood and youth coloured by the underground to motherhood, life on a social network and an unavoidable job in a corporation. She and the other characters, quite ordinary people tottering on the edge of mental health, refuse the ladder of values that says comfort, work, success, money and career come first. Written like a headlong musical improvisation that rushes, spills and meanders, the story paints a surreal, picturesque image of Czech society as deaf, unfree, entirely for sale and dependent on forces beyond its control, and asks whether we will still be human once we lose the ability to listen.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

293 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia

First published

2014 by Kniha Zlín

Author's age

36 when first published

ISBN

9788074730603 (original)