Biele miesta

Medovarky is a dying settlement whose inhabitants are all strangers and outcasts. Agáta Gutová, the mother of Tereza and Dávid, was 'buried' there by her lover, later perhaps her husband, whose ambitions did not allow him a child out of wedlock. The settlement's curse is compounded by the mother's personal one and by the children's rootlessness. On one side stands the situation of the young siblings after their escape from the isolation of Medovarky, on the other their former home and their mother, and between them a host of figures, times and places. The story renders the life of people outside ordinary society, their surroundings, mentality, relationships and way of seeing life, without polemic, as a ballad with elements of horror.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

135 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

First published

2006 by Koloman Kertész Bagala

Author's age

27 when first published

ISBN

8089129897 (original)