Kobold
E-book, Czech
Kobold
Kobold (Surpluses of Tenderness and Surpluses of People) is a double novel
Two stories in one book like two elements — water and fire, which transforms what is seen. Or two rivers merging into one stream? It is a book about the forms of irresistible love and subtle violence. About how human existence is predetermined by the family we are born into or the ideology we are immersed in. About a society hardened both inwardly and at the edges, towards all the " weaker", the sensitive. The torments of these characters are the diseases of our time. And the source of this torment seems to be the Kobolds.
Kobold loosely follows on from the books And I' m Still the One Who Knocks (2005) and Money from Hitler (2006), and with it the author completes her trilogy about the Central European twentieth century.
Nomination for the Josef Škvorecký Award 2011
Nomination for the Czech Book Award
Radka Denemarková
Radka Denemarková (born 1968) is a Czech writer, literary historian, screenwriter, dramaturge and translator of German works. She is the only Czech author to receive the Magnesia Litera award in four different categories — for prose (the novel Money from Hitler, 2006), journalism (novel monograph Death, You Will Not Be Afraid, or The Story of Petr Lébl, 2008), translation (Herta Müllerová: Swinging Breath, Czech 2010) and Book of the Year (Lead Clock, 2018). In 1998, she published a monograph about Evalda Schorm, An Enemy to Himself, and in 2005, her first novel, And I' m Still the One Who Beats. This was followed by the novel Kobold (2011), a year later by the play Sleeping Disorders, in 2014 by the novel A Contribution to the History of Joy, and in 2021 by the essay As if It All Happened Yesterday. Radka Denemarková' s books are published in more than twenty languages. She is the recipient of numerous foreign awards (Usedomer Literary Prize 2011, Georg Dehio Book Prize 2012, Spycher Literary Prize Leuk 2019, Tolerance Prize 2024 of the City of Villach, etc. ). ).
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