When the dogs came
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When the dogs came
A masterful novel from the post-war Beskid Mountains by the author of the bestseller Až uvidíš moře
Some secrets should remain hidden forever—it is better not to know that the heroes to whom we have built monuments actually hurt many people. Živa, Ludmila, Slávek, Ondráš, and Karel all have something to hide. But who can judge them when they spent their youth in a time when the inhabitants of the Beskid Mountains feared partisans as much as German soldiers? And is it possible to distinguish good from evil when your soul is irrevocably scarred? The mountains in Wallachia still hide stories of great loves and unfulfilled dreams. The time has come to tell them… In her historical novel set in the post-war Beskid Mountains, Scarlett Wilková bears witness to the fact that the pain of war does not end with the last gunshot.
Scarlett Wilková
Scarlett Wilková is a journalist who has been writing since she joined the editorial staff of a company magazine in Ostrava after graduating from secondary school. She has since worked for various media outlets and, for the last twenty years, has written primarily for Magazín DNES, where she focuses on interviews and topics related to social trends. She also participates in non-profit projects concerning issues in the lives of senior citizens. She collaborates with the Post Bellum organisation, which runs the Memory of Nations database. For them, she recorded the memoirs of Greek witnesses, which inspired her debut novel Až uvidíš moře (Until You See the Sea). In her second novel, Ty chladné oči (Those Cold Eyes), she touches on the theme of collaboration with the Nazi regime during the Second World War. Her book Desetkrát a dost (Ten Times and That's Enough) returns to Greece. Her novel Když přišli psi (When the Dogs Came) depicts the fates of the inhabitants of the post-war Beskid Mountains.
