Domček jedným ťahom

Stories about childhood, adolescence and what came after, told with a narrator's open pleasure in storytelling. On the first page the author declares that all the characters in the book are herself: her father Vinco, her sister Agáta, her mother, husband and children, even a horse, a goat and a hen. At their centre is her absent father, the writer Vincent Šikula, present in every image: since he died she feels more alone each day, and she has bought a house with a huge garden and keeps digging in the soil as if hoping to find him there. Her grandmother Jolanka, with her handbag smelling of prayer book and naphthalene, and the family home in Modra appear among the memories; the little house drawn in one stroke on scraps of paper becomes her refuge.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

165 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovakia

First published

2009 by Slovart

Author's age

42 when first published

ISBN

9788080858735 (original)