In Blowing into the Foam you meet the main character Vlaďka, who after a break-up gets into a car and decides to drive to the end of the world. And it will not be a ride through a rose garden, on the contrary, the road will be quite thorny in places. The book is about three generations of women who are not exactly connected by warm relationships. Daughter, mother, grandmother. the transmission of fate from generation to generation, a vicious circle.

It will take your breath away in many ways. Radka Třeštíková's new novel Foukneš do pěna (You Blow into the Foam) bears her catchy handwriting, but at the same time goes further, pushing the boundaries of experience, hysteria, pain and sentence length.


I liked the book. Yeah, it's not the typical R style. Třeštíková, it reminded me more of P. Soukup, and she's the one I really like. The rawness of the ideas, the narrative. For me, a beautiful and profound insight into the wounded female soul as she journeys, remembers, tortures, heals.


She was born on 13 May 1981 in Zlín. She worked as a corporate lawyer. Readers of Elle, Instinkt, Žena a život and Marie Claire first became acquainted with her texts. Her debut novel, Good to Me, was published in 2014, and her third novel, Bábovky, became a bestseller in 2016. The novel was made into a film in 2020. The detective novel Eight and the book Veselí were also extremely successful.