Islands

In the short story collection Islands, Dora Kaprálová uses intimate stories to explore the limited nature of islands. Not topographically, but primarily in every sense of islandhood, isolation, and confinement. A dozen short stories and tales subtly depict Kaprálová’s auto-fictional worlds, but above all, they portray human fates full of inconspicuous turning points and unexpected encounters that are both chilling and moving in their authentic, unmelodramatic nature and gentle humour. There is love in politics and politics in love, especially when it all happens here and now, in Central Europe, which lies ever further to the east.