Smrtholka

The heroine, Máry, struggles to come to terms with several tragic family events that seem incomprehensible, and tries to find their cause. On a metaphysical train journey that carries her back into situations she has already lived through, she leads us into the world of three siblings who were inexplicably abandoned by their mother and struck by illness, yet held together by their father and their bond with one another. Her childish wish to explore the mysterious places where magicians' assistants vanish grows, after the family tragedy, into self-harm and an obsession with voluntary death. The hardest fight, it seems, must be fought in her own head: accepting the love on offer and facing her inner demons of rejection and guilt.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

205 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

First published

2020 by Torst

Author's age

31 when first published

ISBN

9788072155934 (original)