Orodovnice

Rational but unassertive Ružena is divorced and raising a teenage son. Her sister Zdenka, longing to escape a hectic world, enters a religious order and begins a new life as Sister Klára. Elenka, wife of their brother Michal, who is building a political and diplomatic career, is unhappy with her place as a diplomat's wife and the limits she must not cross. And the mother, years after the one serious revolt of her life, fulfils her roles as wife and mother so well that her life dissolves into the lives of others. In four separate but linked parts the family's story is seen from four angles; at a party for the jubilee the late father did not live to see, illusions of a close, loving clan fall apart, along with memories of two uncles who stood on opposite sides, fascist and communist.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

245 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Politics (assigned by AI)

First published

2006 by Aspekt

Author's age

49 when first published

ISBN

8085549638 (original)