Slepá mapa - 2 CDmp3 (Čte Veronika Gajerová)

People come into the world for various reasons – out of love, by chance, or by mistake. I was born because of an apartment," the main character Anežka states at the beginning of the saga about a trio of women that began to be written even before the First World War. Anežka's fate is shaped not only by the life stories of her parents and grandparents but also by the cruel impact of historical events. Her grandmother Anna left for a border town in northern Bohemia against her parents' wishes to start a new life with her chosen one – but this soon turns into a struggle for survival when Antonín is wounded at the front and Anna contracts tuberculosis. A quarter of a century later, their daughter Alžběta also struggles with difficult beginnings, forced to flee from the German army occupying the Sudetenland. Half a century later, a dramatic twist of fate – this time in the form of an StB officer – also changes the life of the narrator Anežka... "Alena Mornštajnová captures in her literary debut the misfortunes of one family. Rather than focusing on the family as a whole, the author concentrates on three of its representatives: grandmother Anna, mother Alžběta, and daughter Anežka. These women, although related, are very different in character and each experiences her misfortune in her own way." - iliteratura.cz Blind Map is the author's debut work. The book was...