9 životů jedné ženy (2026)

How many countries can we live in, professions can we reach the top in, children can we raise, and dreams can we fulfil? How much love and pain can we bear, and where is the boundary between courage and madness? Alina Akhmetshina was born in a Tatar village in the Ural Mountains, where nature measured time and reading was considered a waste of it. She read in secret, and after discovering the worlds of Emily Brontë, George Sand and other literary icons, she could never turn back. From the Urals she went to Charles University in Prague and then set out into the world. Pilot, mountaineer, traveller, dancer, film and porn-magazine producer, director of a nursery school, travel agency and integration centre, coach, mother and woman, she has lived many lives. This memoir reflects on the world, cultures, relationships and the transformations that come with life’s different stages. It tells the true story of a woman whose vitality and optimism prevail despite obstacles, showing how the desire for freedom can give us the courage to change our lives and search for our identity across continents. Alina Akhmetshina has a gift for seeing what remains hidden from others and describing precisely what others struggle to put into words. The contents are in Czech.