With widely varying characters and plots, these seven short stories describe everything from a young Czech girl coming of age to an Imperial Chinese chef who is increasingly unable to be truly... This description may be from another edition of this product.
If you want to read the best Czech women's fiction has to offer you should definitely try Fischerova's collection of short stories. There is something there for everyone. Gentleness, irony, laughter and tears. The first five stories are coming-of-age stories seen through both the lens of an adult, funny, witty and throught-provoking. The last two stories takes on a magical fairy tour to Asia, where truth, of the existential kind, is closer than fiction. I highly recommend it.
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