Hagibor

Three generations of women are touched, indirectly but deeply, by the history of the late twentieth century. Květa never grows close to her husband, whose view of the world was shaped forever by a concentration camp, nor to her daughter Hana, a young photographer who escapes to London through a fictitious marriage for fear of persecution. There Hana lives through the hard beginnings of exile in complete isolation, betrayed by her partner and cut off from the child she left with her mother in Prague. Her London notes, her mother's view and a box of photographs make up the story, which ends with the adult daughter Erika's difficult approach to a mother she never knew.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

212 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia, United Kingdom, 1970s onwards

First published

2014 by Torst

Author's age

65 when first published

ISBN

9788072154760 (original)