A book about freedom. The novel won the Magnesia Litera Award 2018 for Best Prose
The narrator Ada Sabová, a young scientist at the "Institute of Interdisciplinary Human Studies", is in many ways a typical (but not stereotypical) modern intellectual trying to balance her personal life and career.
She has already been through a lot in both, leaving her with a certain cynicism, or rather a learned, sarcastic perception of the world, the people around her, and herself. Set against the backdrop of the search for her colleague's missing son, she notes seeming coincidences around her, sensing an underlying order and interconnectedness.
She seeks an overarching definition for all these phenomena, her "theory of strangeness", only to find that she cannot grasp the infinite complexity of the world through intellect alone. And while society around her clings increasingly to hollow rules, Ada abandons its structures one by one and heads towards freedom.
Reviews for the book A Theory of Strangeness
The author asks, with wit but not lightly, what a human being actually is, what defines us, and what the nature of the world is. I have been sitting at café tables with Pavla Horáková for years, and I never realised what a great writer she is. The world is strange and full of wonders.
novinky.cz
A highly successful novel. I appreciate that the author breaks away from the current trend of most Czech female writers, steering clear of a protagonist drowning in depression and experiencing one blow of fate after another. That is not to say this is some kind of light comedy, not at all. The entire novel is written with a light, almost ethereal sense of hyperbole, touching on a host of questions – both serious and completely trivial – that cross many of our minds at some point. It is original, fast-paced, and simply well written.
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