It's raining sea
E-book, Czech
It's raining sea
Let us tell you a difficult story about pain, fear, unconditional love and the questions and answers we all struggle to find in life
Hanka's world is disrupted for the first time by her parents' unexpected divorce and alternate custody, which is decided by the court. In his father's new family, he meets Ales, the son of his father's wife. She should think of him as a brother, but she falls in love with him. Unhappily, because Ales sees her first and foremost as a sister. But that's not Hanka's only problem. First her father's and then her mother's death completely derails her, and Hanka struggles to find a way to cope, to find someone to lean on. At first she is helped by her grandmother, whose life story seems to foreshadow Hanča's fate. And then she meets Hubert, many years her senior, who does what he sees in her eyes. But was their meeting really accidental, or is Hubert pursuing his own goal?
I tilt my head and the drops that run down suddenly taste salty. A sharp summer shower and after it the silence smells so nice. Mom would say it's raining seas. When I fell down and started crying when I was a kid, it was always the sea raining. When my parents were getting divorced, the sea was raining, when my dad died, when my mom died, it rained too, and it's been raining ever since, even though I don't actually have any tears on my face.
Radka Třeštíková
Radka Třeštíková was born and grew up in South Moravia, studied law in Prague and has been working in law for seven years. She published her debut novel in 2014, and her third book, The Cakes, was the most acclaimed literary event of 2016. The subsequent novel Eight with a Detective Plot and Veselí, in which the main character returns from Prague to Veselí nad Moravou, where the author comes from, was also extremely successful. In 2020, her sixth book, Blowing into the Foam, about her journey to the end of the world in search of her own self, will be published.
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