When to touch adulthood

The title of When to Touch Adulthood suggests the questions the author asks her characters and readers. Stories of young people making their first important decisions and naming the strong and difficult moments they have experienced and survived on their journey to adulthood. They are a silent reflection of our own lives.

Professor Miloš Horanský notes: "Life's first mighty carom. Scars on the soul and emotions, infinitely more devastating than those on the body. They shape, they deform. On the hitherto small stage of their lives they are the characters of their dramas, dramas and tragic touches: Mommy, Dad, Brother, Grandma, First love, A friend, Stepmother, New dad... disappointment in himself, alienation of loved ones, the death of loved ones, the powerful force of reciprocity.

  Zuzana Maléřová is extraordinary with speech and dialogue. It's her strength as an author. He doesn't bend stories, he doesn't embellish, he gets inside people and teaches us to feel them deeply and complexly, yet monolithically. Her search wand is called empathy - it's a great relational sensitivity. He never opens his portraits garishly and uncomfortably wide, always stealthily and with a poetry of suggestion. This is the talent of the being before us to create as a shy act of mystery.

   Vlad Bohdan's photographic art is complementary to Zuzana's vision. Both factual and poetic. Sensitive to content simplicity. Unflattering... Every glance into another being, into a fellow human being, is a gentle, humanistic act... and you have to earn it - as both extraordinary creators would tell us. "

The book is loosely based on the authors' previous books - How to Meet Kids and Why Boys Love Football. Both have been published repeatedly to great acclaim.