Naničhodnica

Ľudmila is about eighty, an invisible old woman who belongs nowhere. Her life falls apart after the death of Mariena, her kindred spirit, and she is left without a home or anyone close. Through her the novel moves through health care, charity, the media and politics, and through the lives of the people who fill them: the journalist Miloš, the former politician Eliáš and his wife Dorotka, the doctor Igor, the celebrity Linda, several of them conspicuously pleased with themselves and their Christian approach to life. Each sees Ľudmila from their own angle, and the web of their stories asks how society treats a person who has lost both her home and her nearest.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

250 pages in the original

Set in

Slovakia

First published

2020 by Aspekt

Author's age

63 when first published

ISBN

9788081510922 (original)