Teta Anula

A mosaic of anecdotal tales, linked by a small world of witty, idiosyncratic characters, forms the closed story of a community in western Slovakia, in the country around Trnava, from Cífer to Šenkvice and from Igram to Senec. Aunt Anula is a hard-working, unmarried, devout village healer, disappointed by men and faithful to her friendships, promises and natural sense of right; she owns two goats. The fourteen-year-old narrator, her unspoken admirer, watches her and lets slip his own sins and boyish longings. Under her protection the family, falling apart under the pressure of history, above all the war and the years after it, keeps its sense of home and human warmth.

AI-generated summary

About the book

Form

Novella

Length

103 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Coming of age, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovakia, wartime and post-war years

First published

2007 by Slovenský spisovateľ

Author's age

65 when first published

ISBN

9788022014229 (original)