Bereme, co je

Pavla, born soon after the war, grows up in the 1950s and 1960s in Strakonice, a small Czech town where neighbours and party officials keep an eye on everyone. Her young mother, from a family of brickworkers who came back from Vienna, has divorced Pavla's Slovak father and remarried, and resents that the girl looks and behaves more and more like him. Pavla reads everything, writes poetry and dreams of Prague and of finding the father who never got in touch. Instead of further study she is sent to a factory. Fleeing her overbearing home, she takes shelter with the town's misfits, and an affair with a hard-drinking bohemian lands her in a psychiatric hospital.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

295 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Family, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia, Slovakia, 1950s–1960s

First published

2005 by Abonent ND

Author's age

58 when first published

ISBN

9788072582044 (original)