Dora Kaprálová: Islands
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: September 6, 2019, 19:00 – 21:00
In the short story collection Ostrovy (Islands) Dora Kaprálová explores intimate stories of the isolated nature of islands. Not only topographically, but above all in all the sense of insularity, isolation and delimitation.
Twenty-one short stories that describe in a sophisticated manner Kaprálová’s auto-fictional world but first and foremost human lives packed with inconspicuous turning points and unexpected encounters that chill but are, thanks to their authenticity and subtle humour, also touching.
There’s love in politics and politics in love, especially given the setting of the here and now, in a Central Europe shifting ever eastward.
Ivana Myšková will introduce the book and Dora Kaprálová will read excerpts
Musical accompaniment provided by Jakub Šimanský and Tomáš Niesner.
Organised by the Václav Havel Library in cooperation with the Druhé město publishing house.