Jezero: read by Lucie Žáčková

The award-winning story of a boy who was determined to sink to the bottom

A fishing village somewhere at the end of the world, by a lake that is drying up and ominously cresting its banks. The men have vodka, the women are worried, and the kids are scratching their eczema. What does Nami have? Nami's got nothing - just a granny with fat arms. Nami has nothing but her life ahead of her: the first love he loses to the Russian soldiers, and then everything else. Better not think about it. But if life begins at the very end of the world, perhaps it will end at the beginning. This story is as old as mankind itself. It is a hero's journey, a boy who sets out with only a knot of nerves and his grandfather's coat. He must go out into the world to seek, and return home to find. They must cross the lake, circle it, and finally sink to the bottom for the biggest secret.

Bianca Bell has written a brilliant novel that is both like and unlike her previous books. What remains is the rawness of vision, the precise and concise language. But this time we find ourselves in a completely different world, more dense, deeper, more fateful. It was only here that everything seemed to fall into place. The lake's icy waters grip its innards.