Patchwork in White

Scraps of the stories of people who, despite or because of their differences, meet in close relationships within a shared life in Czechoslovakia in the second half of the twentieth century. We come to them through the memories of Ota, bohemian, doctor, lover and mother, and of her husband Andrej. The book is above all about motherhood and its ambivalence, the swing between closeness and estrangement of mother and child, and the way a woman's identity changes when she becomes a mother; it is also about memory and its fragments, death, loss and trauma, but also hope and vitality. The text is accompanied by works by the artist Eva Moflárová.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

114 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovakia, second half of the 20th century

First published

2022 by Aspekt

Author's age

72 when first published

ISBN

9788081510991 (original)

9781803096728 (Seagull Books, United Kingdom)