Čas hledání vší – Simonová Svatava (2012)

The collection of stories Time of Searching takes readers back to the 1940s into the environment of a traveling puppet theater company. Against the backdrop of a difficult era and an equally challenging craft, human destinies unfold around a family artistic enterprise led by a tough grandfather, destinies that are as profound as ancient tragedies. Especially since their observer and storyteller is a small, sensitive girl, the youngest member of the ensemble. Growing up in the world of traveling puppeteers deeply influenced Svatava Simonová (* 1935). True to her family tradition, interrupted by the communist regime, she worked her entire life as a director of television fairy tales and children's films. The collection Time of Searching is her literary debut.