Aleš Palán Launch: This Book Will Change Your Life

The journalist, writer and editor Aleš Palán will present his new work Tahle kniha ti změní život (This Book Will Change Your Life) (Host). Subtitled Conversations on the Unexpected Power of Reading, it tells the stories of people whose lives have been impacted by books. A former sex worker, the father of a sick son, a parish priest, the owner of an underground publishing house, a supermarket clerk, a mystery writer and a nurse all talk about their lives. Each of them just needed to read the right book at the right time and their lives were utterly transformed. Suddenly it was possible to find a way out of a dead end, to become active and to cope with adversity around them or within them. It may be rare, but books still have the power to change people’s destinies. You just need to believe – and open one.