Name: We have empty hands
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We have empty hands

A Student's Diary from 1989

The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, 1989. Magdaléna is a fresh-faced 17-year-old, a student in year 4B at a Prague grammar school. She dreams of love, but even more, she dreams of living in a free country. She is afraid of police batons, but still goes to demonstrations, and Václav Havel is her hero. Then comes the Velvet Revolution.
“We Have Bare Hands” is an authentic student's diary from the time of the upheaval, but also a historical novel in which events are described as they actually happened.

About the Author

? Magdaléna Platzová, born on 8 March 1972, grew up in Prague. She is the daughter of the writer and former dissident Eda Kriseová. After studying philosophy and a brief acting career, she worked as a journalist for Xantypa, Literární noviny and Respekt, to which she still contributes today. Among other works, she is the author of the novels Aaron's Leap, The Anarchist and The Other Side of Silence, two books of short stories and the children's book Toník and the Cave of Dreams. Since 2009, she has lived permanently outside the Czech Republic with her husband and three children, and currently resides in France.