Bílá voda – Tučková Kateřina (2023)

Bílá Voda. A deserted village hidden in the shadow of the border mountains, where once crowds of pilgrims came to seek help from the miraculous statue of the Virgin Mary. Today, Lena Lagnerová arrives here to hide from her past. Instead of a monastery with a large community of nuns, she finds only a few sisters, led by the eccentric nun Evarista. She came to Bílá Voda on the last night of September 1950, when the communist regime deported all the nuns to collection monasteries as part of Action R. The young Evarista refused to return to civilian life. Like all the nuns, she was forced into labor and subjected to humiliation in a communist prison. However, her captors did not shake her faith or loyalty to the order. On the contrary. They only strengthened her resolve to stand up to them. With that, however, came the necessity to confront the regime's corrupt church... Lena, sifting through the documents of the Bílá Voda monastery, soon realizes that Evarista's dramatic story is just beginning, and she will soon understand that the demons haunting the past of the local nuns have not disappeared, and moreover, are part of her own fate. From the author of the bestseller Žítkovské bohyně. Awards: State Prize for Literature...