Aviaries
Published on 18. February 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
132 pages
978-80-86264-51-6 (ISBN)
Description
A novella composed of diary entries, interior monologue content and dream-like vignettes, depicting a hypochondriac middle-aged woman's interactions with the other women in her life and presenting a sense of the distinct issues faced in Czech society.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Prague
Czech Republic
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
1 black and white frontispiece
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
204 gr
ISBN-13
978-80-86264-51-6 (9788086264516)
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Persons
Zuzana Brabcova (1959-2015) was born in Prague. After graduating high school she was denied by the communist regime the opportunity to study at university, so she worked as a librarian, hospital attendant, and as a cleaning lady for six years. After the regime fell in 1989, her first book, Far from the Tree, which had come out in samizdat abroad was officially published and received the very first Jiří Orten Prize. Her novel Ceilings won a Magnesia Litera Award for Prose Book of the Year in 2013, and she followed this with Aviaries in 2016, completed just before her sudden death.