Planisko (slovensky) – Opremčáková Števa (2012)

Števa Opremčáková, after her exceptionally successful debut with the title In Ireland, It Rains Differently, presents a chilling story of an orphaned girl. The reader may find her unkind fate hopeless, but the witty perspective with which she overcomes it is marked by refreshing vitality. The little girl, who became an orphan at a young age, was put up for adoption and returned to her grandparents like a worthless coin. Rejected by small-town society, she learns that she is Jewish. She experiences firsthand that any kind of difference will uncompromisingly push a person to the margins of society. In such crushing abandonment, it is easiest to surrender to fate. But not Žofia Kornfeldová. She was the most miserable creature in the world, yet she never felt unhappy or angry. In her way of thinking, she sees a world where there is no one to please, where she is not a victim of parental instincts, and where there is no loving word 'we', only the hopeless 'I', like a free universe full of endless possibilities. How Žofka measures her strength against the world is what the book's heartfelt and sincere plot narrates.