Letnice

For the inhabitants of the remote town of Svatý Jiří, crossing water dry-shod, breaking stone by whistling and talking to angels and to statues of saints are perfectly ordinary things. At the start of the twentieth century they live entirely cut off from the world, but they slowly sense that an age of great technical wonders is coming to replace their traditional ones. Odysseus, a local man thought dead, returns and, as an experienced globetrotter, helps his neighbours prepare for the changes ahead, while competing with his younger brother Tomáš for beautiful Julie, temporarily mute, whom Tomáš found half dead in the forest years before. An inspection from the capital means certain things, working miracles included, must be hidden.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

381 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Speculative, Love (assigned by AI)

First published

2024 by Paseka

Author's age

57 when first published

ISBN

9788076374638 (original)

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