Záhorácky raj

Why is Záhorie the navel of the world? The answer is a mythology of the region in western Slovakia, mixing fantasy with fact and legend with document, told in mini-stories full of dialect and wordplay. In the beginning, when the land is still under the sea, the god Perún and his wife Baba rule from the empty heights. What follows includes everything mythologies contain, from the appearance of dry land and the birth of the first human to complicated affairs between gods and mortals, divine anger, punishment and death, as Perún tempts the young goddesses Lada, Vesna and Mokoša and the villages of Záhorie, Sološnica, Kuchyňa, Lozorno and Stupava among them, come into being. Christian, Greek and Slavic myth are mixed and mangled, until a little Francek hatches from a hen's egg.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

132 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovakia

First published

2009 by Vydavateľstvo Matice slovenskej

Author's age

66 when first published

ISBN

9788081150166 (original)