Pláňata – Dvořáková Petra (2024)

A novel about coming of age in a transformative time ***** An ordinary family, an ordinary village. Two school-aged daughters, parents with ordinary professions. Also grandparents, all somewhat cramped in a patched-up house. And around them, equally ordinary, motionless time. But appearances can be deceiving. The moment quietly approaches when the old regime ripens for a sudden fall. Pavlína, with her adolescent heart, shares her parents' euphoric illusions of a different, better life and projects them onto the blank walls of her wishes and desires. However, these do not only concern the anticipated freedom and its temptations but also relationships. Especially as the girl gradually begins to perceive that her family, in which 'everyone means well with each other,' is like a plain overgrown with thickets of misunderstanding, complexes, and sometimes even aggression. The desire to seize her piece of happiness is stronger than the challenging path of respect and empathy. A great black nightmare seems to settle over the world around and within. Can one really change and leave their small world to find the dreamt, truly better one? ***** From the author of the bestsellers Dědina, Chirurg, and Vrány.