Destroy this name
A brilliantly constructed psychological thriller from the Magnesia Litera award-winning author
Eighteen years ago, Klára decided to cut all ties with her hometown in eastern Bohemia and leave for Germany. Now she lives and works in Hamburg, where she seemingly has everything she could ever want: a loving partner, a place at university, friends, a flat in the bohemian district of St Pauli… But when her father calls her one hot August night to say someone wants to kill him, Klára feels as if her unresolved past is reaching across the chasm of time to bring her back home.
After her father's death, she heads to the “hole near Pardubice” to arrange the funeral and inheritance matters. Beneath the guise of a peaceful small-town life, nothing is as it seems. Everyone Klára encounters in the days following her father’s death is hiding something: her younger sister Ela, her childhood friend Majda, her ex-boyfriend’s partner Tereza, her father’s first wife Milada…
They all have their secrets. They all have a reason to hate Klára. And one of them wants to see her dead.
Jana Jašová
She studied journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. She is a successful literary translator and also dedicates herself to her own writing. She has translated more than two hundred fiction titles for children and adults from English, and also translates non-fiction literature. For her translation of Michelle Paver's novel Oath Breaker, she was awarded the Golden Ribbon in 2010, and she received the same award in 2021 for her book Dog Days. Her first thriller, Znič to jméno (Destroy That Name), was nominated for the Magnesia Litera award in the “detective story” category. She continues in this genre with the title Krutý měsíc (Cruel Moon).
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