Lover/Fighter

Blue meat, clouds of violence and one quite ordinary girl in four wild episodes of her life, in a merciless world that may await us. In 2014, teenage girls hunt each other in the Brdy forest. Five years later a clash between children's gangs and skaters on the Letná plain in Prague turns into perhaps the biggest street fight in the city's history. In 2023 a love affair between two girls slowly becomes a duel to the death, and in 2031 the heroine fights thirsty animals in a city scorched by climate change. Behind it all runs the spread of a new, unpredictable substance extracted from parrot meat that makes people aggressive, in a story about childhood and youth in a world where people are always at each other's throats.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

146 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative, Coming of age, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia, 2014–2031

First published

2024 by Dokořán

Author's age

27 when first published

ISBN

9788076752085 (original)