Tvoja izba

Written in the second person, as if addressed to herself, this short novel follows Míša, a young editor at a newly founded left-wing magazine in Bratislava. Disciplined and exacting, she runs her life by timetables, plans and drawings, keeps her room tidy, and judges colleagues and lovers for their childishness and careless grammar. At its centre is a failed love for her former lover, referred to only as 'the management', and her effort to step out of it emotionally. The book reads like a carefully composed diary in which the narrator watches herself with cool irony, and its underlying subject is loneliness.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

138 pages in the original

Genres

Love, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovakia

First published

2019 by self-published

Author's age

35 when first published

ISBN

9788057009573 (original)