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The novel follows three protagonists 'from both sides of death'. The narrator tells his own story in the first person from his birth on. Nula, whose name means zero, makes his way through the drab stages of his life, childhood, school, work and family, with a sense of defeat and of his own uselessness, yet sees life's colours clearly and is kept going by Lucia, little Mauglí and his friends. Hombre was never born: his mother had an abortion, so his life ended before it began, and he watches the others from a world beyond, which slowly fills as figures from the world of the living die and join him; there he tries to bring his adopted daughter back to life. The story is set in Slovakia in the second half of the twentieth century and the early twenty-first.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

358 pages in the original

Set in

Slovakia, late 20th–early 21st century

First published

2008 by Slovart

Author's age

37 when first published

ISBN

9788080854744 (original)