Kruhy v obilí

Despite its subtitle, A Short History of Death Metal, the book is not really about crop circles or death metal, but about truth, which, like crop circles, cannot be seen from the ground and cannot be understood from above. Its single narrator spends his days with Linda and Lujza, conjoined twins, and when he needs a rest from them and from himself he goes with his friend Emil to the rehearsals of a death-metal band and then to the pub. Along the way the story touches on juggling, chronic kidney failure and transplants. Told in 181 two-page segments that keep shifting the view of the same matters, it becomes a many-voiced novel about the metaphysics of life, exclusive minorities, music, responsibility, love and the refusal to live together.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

445 pages in the original

First published

2010 by Slovart

Author's age

39 when first published

ISBN

9788080858384 (original)