Awarded the Magnesia Litera Prose Book of the Year in 2013, CEILINGS is a polyphonic novel kin to the work of Leonora Carrington and Unica Zürn. Taking place in a mental hospital in Prague where the "narrator" is undergoing detox treatment for substance abuse, the borders blur between inner experience and the outer world, between reality and dream. As the walls and ceilings hemming in the desire for freedom fantastically break open as if into the unknown and gender fluidly shifts between brother and sister, who are one and the same, Brabcová's flights of imagination portray how difficult it is to "come out of oneself" and to engage with the other in a multifarious world that demands it of us, no matter how ambivalently.
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1 black & white; 1 black & white
Maße
Höhe: 200 mm
Breite: 142 mm
Dicke: 9 mm
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ISBN-13
978-80-88628-05-7 (9788088628057)
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Zuzana Brabcova (1959-2015) was born in Prague. Her father a signatory of Charter 77, she was denied by the Communist regime the opportunity to study at university, so she had to work a number of odd jobs. Her first novel, Far from the Tree, was awarded the very first Jiří Orten Prize. In 2000, she published The Year of Pearls, a groundbreaking novel about coming out as lesbian. Her award-winning novel Ceilings appeared in 2012, followed by the short novel Aviaries in 2016, completed just before her untimely death and winning the Josef Skvorecký Award for best work of fiction.
