A new novel by a popular author and winner of the prestigious Magnesia Litera award
The distance between people can be boundless.
Marie, a forty-seven-year-old divorced associate professor of literature, finds herself in her sister's half-empty apartment in Český Krumlov over the summer. He commutes from there to the countryside to visit his seriously ill parents and in his free time he wanders among the crowds of tourists through the streets of Krumlov. He meets a young book buyer, Filip. Their budding romance breathes with the atmosphere of hot July and numerous literary connotations.
Above all, however, Marie wants to mend relations with her sister and take care of her parents - a domineering father and a mild, devoted mother. And deal with your loneliness. She sees it as being stuck in time, with memories from the past - and the prospect of old age on the other side. In the family tradition of strong male role models, Marie reflects on what has been, while wondering how to live on and what to do with "Shakespearean love"...
