Forest in the house
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Forest in the house
An unexpectedly chilling novel from the bestselling author of Hannah, The Silent Years, November
They call her cácora and she seems to be in the world by accident and as if in addition. The father disappeared in the floods, the mother runs away from her responsibilities to lovers and alcohol - and the little girl is left hanging on the neck of her resentful grandmother, who runs a horticultural business and is convinced that everything bad in life can be eradicated like a voracious creeper. Or just don't talk about it. But there's a forest all around that hides something sinister, and one day the cácora starts talking...
Alena Mornštajnová has written a powerful and dramatic story about the fact that nothing in life is as it seems at first sight and that no secret is ever buried so deep that it cannot be dug up. You'll be scared, but you won't stop reading until they surface.
Czech Bestseller of 2023 in the category Readers' Choice
They wrote about the book:
Thanks to her compelling fates against the backdrop of historical twists and turns, Alena Mornštajnová has become a star of the contemporary Czech literary scene.
- Soňa Kacerovská, iDNES.cz
I wanted to write a book about it, how hard it is sometimes to tell the truth from a lie, how difficult it is to stand up to evil, about it, as some choices, that may seem simple to onlookers, are illegible and insurmountable to man, who is at the center of the action. I wanted to clarify for myself why these things happen and why it is difficult to face them.
- Alena Mornštajnová, author
Alena Mornštajnová
(born. 1963) studied English and Czech at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava. She used to work as an English language teacher and translator, but now she makes her living as a writer. She debuted in 2013 with the novel Blind Map, followed two years later by Hotylek. Thanks to her award-winning 2017 novel Hana, she has become one of the most popular contemporary Czech writers. Her fourth novel, Silent Years (2019), won the Book of the Year reader's poll. In the spring of 2021, she published the dystopian novel Listopád, for which she received the Czech Book Award 2022. Two years later, she published the psychological novel Les v domě, which was named the Czech Bestseller of 2023 in the Readers' Choice category. She is also the author of several books for children: Scarecrow Stráša (2018), Kapka Aja (2022), Teribear. The Mystery of the Blue Box (2022), Christmas on Sleeping Beauty Street and Blue Planet (both 2024). Alena Mornštajnová's books have so far been published in more than twenty languages.
