Pláňata - CDmp3 (Čte Marie Černochová, Lucie Valenová, Robert Mikluš)

No human life is ordinary when viewed up close… ***** Pavlína grows up in a household where everyone means well, yet they argue every day. Her father can't stand her mother's complaints, she sees him as a drunkard, the grandparents think they know best, and her sister has her own world. The first years in elementary school are spent under the watchful eye of a comrade teacher parroting communist propaganda, anxiously awaiting rain that might contain radioactive fallout from Chernobyl, and waking from sleep to terrifying images of a third world war unleashed by imperialists. However, the expected change in the life of the insecure teenager and her eternally dissatisfied parents does not come with the revolution – people remain the same, the only measure of success becomes money, and the gap between more capable citizens (or those with a better starting position) and the rest of the nation mercilessly widens. Pavlína also wants to grab a piece of happiness for herself, but she still doesn't know how. And the relationships within her family are getting worse and more twisted day by day… ***** A successful Czech prose writer returns to the Czech countryside in her novel about coming of age in a transformative time, a place she has already proven her thorough knowledge of in the award-winning Dědina. ***** Length of the recording: 9 hours 55 minutes