A book about freedom, which won the Magnesia Litera Award for Best Prose
The narrator Ada Sabová, a young scientist from the "Institute of Interdisciplinary Human Studies", is in many ways a typical (but not stereotypical) modern intellectual trying to balance her personal life and career.
She has done a lot of both, and so she is not free from a certain cynicism, or rather a learned, sarcastic perception of the world, the people around her and herself. Against the backdrop of the search for his colleague's missing son, he notices seemingly random things around him, but he suspects a pattern and interconnectedness behind them.
He seeks an overarching definition for all these phenomena, his "theory of strangeness", and finds that the infinite complexity of the world cannot be grasped by reason alone. And while the society around her clings more and more to hollowed-out rules, Ada leaves its structures one by one and sets out for freedom.
