Ve skříni

The nameless narrator has lived abroad in an unhappy relationship. After her partner dies in unclear circumstances, she returns to her native country, where she has nowhere to live and no idea how to live anyway, so she settles for a wardrobe her sister wants to get rid of. She places it in the courtyard of a block of flats and moves in. The bizarre premise becomes a metaphor for looking for one's place in the world, onto which she projects her relations with her family, with men, with friends and with herself. In slangy, playful language broken by meditative passages, she tells of a life crisis, rejecting stereotypes of success. But summer is ending, and the rain is getting into the wardrobe.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

222 pages in the original

Set in

Czechia

First published

2018 by Argo

Author's age

35 when first published

ISBN

9788025726556 (original)