Destrukce

The central figure is a teacher in his thirties who escapes the city's complexity for the countryside, hoping for peace, order and a community in which everyone has a place and the truth is plain. He learns he cannot run from the world when he is unable to answer a single question from the children in his class: how can he teach them about a world he does not understand himself? The village brings no calm. Its authorities crumble like its buildings; instead of paradise he finds dying nature and wells running dry, while the mayor orders leaves raked and cars polished. As he watches a catastrophe of unclear origin, everyone pretends nothing unusual is happening, because if it were, someone would surely have done something.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

278 pages in the original

Genres

Nature, Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia

First published

2021 by Druhé město

Author's age

39 when first published

ISBN

9788072278695 (original)