Rybí krev

Hana left the South Bohemian countryside fifteen years ago and comes back in 2008 to the village of her childhood, now half under the water of a reservoir. Around 1990 the nuclear plant at Temelín and the dam built for it forced families out and villages were torn down; the place where she once hoped to marry and teach at the little school is empty. Now in her forties, she wants to put old things to rest and looks up the people who mattered: her father, who will not let go of the farming tradition, her brother, who went to prison after a disputed car crash, school friends and former loves. Beneath the lost fight against the power station lie quieter family dramas with deep roots.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

354 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Nature (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia, 1980s–2008

First published

2012 by Host

Author's age

45 when first published

ISBN

9788072946396 (original)