Angel eggs
E-book, Czech
Angel eggs
The new novel by the winner of the prestigious Magnesia Litera Prize for prose takes place in the first half of the 20th century
The main character Augustin Hnát was born thanks to a mermaid. His mother runs around the forest with the deer, his father chose a village fool as his godfather. Instead of a head, it has an egg, which hatches angels of strange ideas. He'd probably live a boring life, if it weren't for my friendship with the scarecrow, the invention of the infinitist, Siberian anabasis, of a devastating love affair with a shell, of two world wars and one military defector. The plot leads to a tragic denouement, where all humour ends.
Drag or click to insert an image. "The plot, full of fleeting puns, flows so quickly that you can't stop reading. Petr Stančík holds reality tightly by the hair and pulls and pulls. But it never overwhelms, offering a believably implausible story. "
- iLiteratura.cz
Petr Stancik
He entered literature under the pseudonym Odillo Stradický ze Strdic, and since 2007 he has been publishing under his own name. For adults, he has published, among others, the story of the first Czech superhero Pérák or the gastronomic-pornographic-philosophical thriller Mill for Mummies (Magnesia Litera 2015 for prose, Best Audiobook of 2015), for children the juvenile horror Mrkev ho vcucla pod zem zem and a series of fairy tales with Chrujda the badger.
He also wrote the historical monograph The Chapel of the Body and Blood of God and The Brotherhood of the Hoop and Hammer about the destroyed Solomonic Temple in the centre of Prague's New Town. He is also the author of several inventions, such as the rocket plough and the tangentially propelled pendulum. He also deals with periphysics and experimental eschatology.
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