Moral

Anna comes to the Czech Republic to work on a PhD in ethics. Her professor picks her up at the railway station, and there is an immediate charge between them; looks, insinuations and drink soon tip supervision into romance. The power gap rubs, and his wife works in the same department. Anna's topic is whether literature can be good or evil, a question that grows uncomfortably practical: by the time he tells her that exposing the affair would be wrong, she is already writing it down. The novel plays with expectations about truth in fiction, and is about power, temptation, thought and desire.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

190 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia

First published

2023 by Modernista

Author's age

33 when first published

ISBN

9789180638548 (original)