Forest in the house
An unexpectedly chilling novel from the bestselling author of Hana, Tiché roky, and Listopád
They call her 'Cácora'—the little squirt. It seems she's an accident, an unwanted extra in the world. Her father vanished somewhere in the floods, and her mother escapes responsibility through lovers and alcohol—leaving the little girl in the care of her resentful grandmother. The grandmother runs a garden centre and is convinced that everything bad in life can be eradicated like voracious slugs. Or simply never spoken of. But all around is a forest hiding something dreadful, and one day, Cácora begins to talk…
Alena Mornštajnová has written a powerful and dramatic story showing that nothing in life is as it first seems, and that no secret is ever buried so deep that it cannot be dug up. You will be scared, but you won't stop reading until it all comes to the surface.
Czech Bestseller of the year 2023 in the Readers' Choice category
What the critics say:
Through compelling stories set against the backdrop of historical upheavals, Alena Mornštajnová has become a star of the contemporary Czech literary scene.
- Soňa Kacerovská, iDNES.cz
I wanted to write a book about how hard it can be to tell truth from lies, how difficult it is to stand up to evil, and how some choices that might seem simple to onlookers are indecipherable and insurmountable for the person at the centre of it all. I wanted to clarify for myself why these things happen and why they are so hard to confront.
- Alena Mornštajnová, author
Alena Mornštajnová
(born 1963) studied English and Czech at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava. She previously worked as an English language teacher and translator, and is now a full-time writer. She debuted in 2013 with the novel Slepá mapa, followed two years later by the novel Hotýlek. It was largely her award-winning 2017 novel Hana that made her one of the most popular contemporary Czech writers. Her fourth novel, Tiché roky (2019), won the Book of the Year readers' poll. In the spring of 2021, she published the dystopian novel Listopád, for which she received the 2022 Czech Book Award. Two years later, she published the psychological novel Les v domě, which was named Czech Bestseller 2023 in the Readers' Choice category. She is also the author of several children's books: Strašidýlko Stráša (2018), Kapka Ája (2022), Teribear. Tajemství modré krabice (2022), Vánoce v Šípkové ulici and Modrá planeta (both 2024). Alena Mornštajnová's books have been published in over twenty languages to date.
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