Short stories on the body Martina Formanová is united by a common theme - partner and intimate relationships.
After several novels and autobiographical prose, Martina Formanová comes up with a collection of shorter stories that are connected by a common theme - partner and intimate relationships in their most diverse forms.
With insight and humorous detachment, he describes the often bizarre situations and predicaments in which we find ourselves as a result of confronting our dreams, goals and intentions with reality. Not only does the feminine world collide with the masculine, but also our ideas about ourselves and others with the real and often random course of the world.
The protagonists of the stories are of different ages and social and professional status. The reader thus encounters e.g. with a thirteen-year-old girl whose awakening sexuality evokes both revulsion and romantic reveries; an all-round successful and irresistible man, who gets caught up in the minor failures of his youth; with ordinary middle-aged lovers and married couples tired of the stereotype; with a young translator making a living at the world's oldest craft; with a 50-year-old man permanently terrified of his wife...
The author's snapshots of the love and sex life of the animal species homo sapiens make for an insightful and humorous read that enriches both sexes.
