Zu

It begins with a corpse in the finest grand hotel in the High Tatras, in a setting that recalls film noir. The story behind it spans three generations: grandfather Savel, whose property their father Peter took over and later defended passionately against the plans of the developer Alte, and the siblings Zu and Pejo, so close they seem to have grown into each other. Zu, a blind piano teacher who has never seen the sun or Alte's face, and Pejo, who works at a linguistics institute, love summer, wine on the terrace of their villa on Palisády in Bratislava, inventing pornographic stories and spying on their new neighbour. Who he is, they have yet to discover, as the novel reveals its hidden connections only slowly.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

279 pages in the original

Genres

Crime, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovakia

First published

2011 by Kalligram

Author's age

47 when first published

ISBN

9788081015618 (original)