Maybe We're Leaving

The people in these stories reach a point where something shakes everything they have known and a strange world opens before them. Oldřich has a morbid fear of birds; Edita walks out on her husband only to be dropped by her lover; others are drying out in a clinic for alcoholics. Most are worn out, lonely and let down by life. On the surface the stories seem uneventful, but their characters talk, ask questions and notice small everyday things that may become urgent signs of whether they have truly lived. The collection draws closely on the author's own experience.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

136 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia

First published

2004 by Host

Author's age

43 when first published

ISBN

9788072941186 (original)

9781911414698 (Glagoslav Publications, United Kingdom)