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Sailing ships on vignettes
A new book from a popular author and winner of the prestigious Magnesia Litera award
The distance between people can be boundless.
Marie, a divorced forty-seven-year-old literature lecturer, finds herself for the summer in her sister's half-empty flat in Český Krumlov. From there, she travels to the countryside to care for her seriously ill parents, and in her free moments, she wanders through the tourist-crowded streets of Krumlov. It is there she meets Filip, a young bookseller. Their budding romance is filled with the atmosphere of a hot July and numerous literary connotations.
However, Marie's main goal is to mend the relationship with her sister and care for her parents—a dominant father and a gentle, selfless mother. And to come to terms with her own loneliness. She perceives this as being stuck in time, with memories from the past weighing down on her—and the prospect of old age on the other side. Following a family tradition of strong male role models, Marie reflects on what has been, while also asking herself how to live on and what to do with a “Shakespearean love”…
Reviews for Sailing Ships on Vignettes
Hájíček has a cultivated linguistic style, a sense of dramatic events, and knows how to hold his point until the final paragraphs of the narrative.
Milan Jungmann, Tvar
Hájíček is a master; a mere hint is all he needs to characterise a person or a landscape, and with a single exchange of dialogue, he can lay out a plot and capture human nature.
Pavel Janoušek, Tvar
In his third book, Jiří Hájíček proves that he is one of the most remarkable storytellers of his generation.
Radim Kopáč, Právo
Klára Kubíčková, MF Dnes
Jiří Hájíček
He grew up in the South Bohemian countryside, where he later worked. He currently lives in České Budějovice. Since the late 1990s, he has published three short story collections, Breakfast on the Refectory Table (1998), The Wooden Knife (2004), and Memories of a Village Dance (2014), and the novellas The Green Horse Thieves (2001) and Football Diaries (2007).
Hájíček's first novel, Mainstream Adventurers, was published in 2002. Both of the author's subsequent novels, Rustic Baroque (2005) and Fish Blood (2012), were awarded the Magnesia Litera prize. He completed his loose “rural trilogy of moral unease” with the novel The Rain Stick (2016), which won the Lidové noviny Book of the Year poll.
Jiří Hájíček is one of the most successful contemporary Czech writers. His books have been published in English, German, Italian, Hungarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Belarusian, Polish, Ukrainian, Serbian, and Bulgarian. In September 2016, a film based on his book The Green Horse Thieves premiered, and since April 2019, a stage adaptation of the novel Fish Blood has been performed at the South Bohemian Theatre in České Budějovice.
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