Lit in Translation

This Room Is Impossible to Eat

Táto izba sa nedá zjesť

Nicol Hochholczerová (born 1999)

Translated by Julia Sherwood, Peter Sherwood

English editions

In English

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A short novel told in poetic, often surreal sentences. Small, inconspicuous events add up, little by little, to the story of an adolescent girl's relationship with an older man and everything that comes with it, which changes at least one life and one way of seeing the world for good. What first looks fragmentary or experimental turns out to be the truest way of perceiving what happened, and the book takes on hard, controversial subjects without mincing its words.

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About the book

Form
Novella
Length
151 pages in the original
Genres
Coming of age (assigned by AI)
Set in
Slovakia
First published
2021 by Koloman Kertész Bagala
Author's age
22 when first published
ISBN

9788089973484 (original)

9781917140416 (Parthian, United Kingdom)

9781913830489 (Parthian, United Kingdom)