Invisible roots
E-book, Czech
Invisible roots
Blood is Thicker than Water. A novelistic chronicle of a family caught in the whirlwind of Czechoslovak history.
November 1989. University student Pavel lives through the events of the revolutionary days, which are marred by a family tragedy: his father, a member of the StB, commits suicide. What's more, Pavel learns that he is adopted, and so begins the search for his roots. Not long after the Second World War, Tomáš and Anežka, employees of the Baťa company, try to flee their homeland across the guarded border. What do these destinies, decades apart, have in common and how will they be affected by the turmoil of history?
We were Czechs, Germans and Jews all at once. And fate punished us for each of those nationalities.
Hynek Čapka
Hynek Čapka graduated from the University of Economics in Prague and a few years later began working as a freelance translator, which he continues to do today. He lives in Zlín and is interested in history, especially the Baťa era of his city. He enjoys reading fiction, and a novel by the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami inspired him to write his debut, Dvojitá ozvěna (Double Echo) (2018). The publishing house Kniha Zlín published his second novel, Neviditelné kořeny (Invisible Roots).
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