This dream

When Daniela was 20, she wanted to have it all. The best clothes, great connections, your own apartment in Prague and a great career. Everything that would allow her to forget that she is an ordinary girl from Litomerice who didn't even graduate from high school. But Daniele was 20 at the time of Tuzex, and the ubiquitous police, so it's no wonder, that such terrifying webs of lies have enveloped her in her quest to make her dreams come true, of fraud and suspicion, that she chose emigration and the severing of all ties as the only possible way out. In America, Daniela has managed to establish herself as a photographer, has a great boyfriend and closets full of all those colourful cloths she always dreamed of. The past does not exist, it is seemingly completely forgotten. But only until Daniela's American friend Mark pushes for a trip to post-revolutionary Czechoslovakia. It is impossible to escape from one's own mistakes, errors, sins and bad conscience even on the other side of the globe, and Daniela knows it well. Martina Forman's gripping story of a journey to fulfill her secret dreams and the subsequent downfalls, about love and hate, about secrets, that we all carry within us, of both ruthlessness and selflessness, about time, when one could not even trust oneself and the difficulty of asserting oneself in a different cultural environment is a very mature prose, proving, that the author of The Scented Lingerie Composer and Three-Piece Swimsuit has made another huge shift in her creative journey. The novel The Dream, authentic and thoughtful prose, in which there is no lack of humour and insight, shouldn't escape everyone's attention, who still remembers the time before the revolution, Everyone, who wants to remember her, who has ever longed deep down to start a new life elsewhere and differently, who wakes up some nights and is weighed down by memories of his own ill-advised actions, that he would never admit to anyone. And anyone who has a dream.

Book Details:
Author: Martina Formanová
Year of publication: 0
Number of pages: 208