Láska? Děkuji, nechci. – Pellová Monika (2026)

This Czech-language novel follows Daniela, a woman who spends her life seeking deeper understanding of herself, her partners and the world around her. Her relationships with women bring passion and pain, happiness and disappointment, and each woman who enters her life offers a different image of love and existence. Conflicts and tender moments emerge from contrasting ways of living together, while Daniela experiences attraction and separation, jealousy and unexpected moments of understanding with intensity and openness. Intimate scenes, passionate dialogue and quiet moments of closeness reveal love as a complicated, multifaceted emotion, whether it takes place between women or men. Suspenseful, at times sexy and at times moving, the story offers an honest look at relationships between women, which in many ways resemble heterosexual relationships while carrying their own particular magic and challenges. It is a story about the desire for love, the courage to live authentically and the search for genuine understanding beyond prejudice. Humour, strong readability and a gradual intensification of emotion run through the narrative. Although it explores love, motherhood and the psychological traumas that shape human lives, the novel avoids self-pity and pathos, making it relevant to anyone interested in human relationships in their most authentic form.