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The Cursed Land
Even the dark past will one day come to light
This time Michaela Klevisová has abandoned the criminal Josef Bergman and in her novel from Pošumaví she looks at crime through the eyes of two young women whose lives are intertwined with the places where dramatic history has repeatedly swept through. The run-down village of Jelení Hora has a dark past and is still not an ideal place to live. No wonder Gerda always wanted to leave here and escape her past. But now she is divorced, penniless and has no choice but to return to her parents' poor house with her daughter. Linda comes to the same place on vacation to search for her family's past, which moved away forty years ago. Then a death occurs in the village and the two women discover a closely guarded secret connected to a land where no one was meant to be happy.
In this book, the author of a successful detective series focuses on interpersonal relationships in a setting adjacent to a national park and military area instead of a crime plot. Despite the history of the local inhabitants, it reveals a history full of twists and turns that prevented some from taking root in these places and unintentionally tied others to Pošumava.
Awards received: Czech Book Award, 2022, nomination for the Czech Book Award 2021
They wrote about the book:
. Michaela Klevisová has created a work that is great in its ordinariness and proves that she belongs among the top of the contemporary Czech literary scene, because only the best writers can play out a powerful story with a significant overlap on a small playground.
- knihydobrovsky.cz - The Cursed Regionj
The author builds up a slightly chilling and dark atmosphere from the very beginning of the novel and never leaves this mysterious aura throughout.
- knihazaknihou.cz - The Cursed Region
Michaela Klevis
She was born in 1976 in Prague. She studied journalism at Charles University and has been working in this field since 1997. Her biggest hobby is travelling. His favourite place to visit is the Nordic countries. Already in her childhood she fell into the world of horse racing, in which she is still intensely interested today. For her first novel, a detective novel with a murderer's plot, she received the Jiří Marek Award for the best detective book of the year from the Czech section of the Association of Authors of Detective Literature (AIEP). She repeated the same success with her novel The House on its Own (2011). Both books are part of the popular crime series with investigator Josef Bergman. A detour from the detective genre is the novel about a crime from the Pošumava region, Prokletý kraj (2021). Klevisová is also the author of three short story collections about people and their cats.
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