Bílá Voda - Limitovaná edice s ilustracemi Jaromíra 99 – Tučková Kateřina (2023)

A literary event in a limited edition with illustrations by Jaromír 99. Few novels by Czech authors have been talked about as much in recent years as the long-awaited Bílá Voda by Kateřina Tučková. This lavish limited edition will surely delight all readers of this author, but its execution will also be appreciated by book enthusiasts with a sense of design. The novel is newly accompanied by black-and-white illustrations by Jaromír 99, who repeatedly returns to his native environment of Jeseníky and the Rychlebské Mountains in his work. No one else can capture the atmosphere of this forgotten region with a troubled past as impressively as he can. The book is published in a total print run of 2,500 copies. 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 religious community, she finds only a few nuns led by the eccentric nun Evarista. She arrived in Bílá Voda on the last night of September 1950, when the communist regime deported all the nuns to collection monasteries as part of Action Ř. Like all the nuns, she was forced into labor and to that...