Katka won't be weird anymore
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Katka won't be weird anymore
An authentic story about growing up, the search for one's own identity and the path to self-acceptance
Almost fifteen years old Katka spends most of her time alone and likes to read. And she likes to eat, too. Her classmates think she's weird. But Katka knows that everything will be different at high school, and right after the entrance exams she makes a resolution: lose weight.
At first it is just an attempt to adjust her lifestyle, but gradually it turns out that the path to her dream "new self" is not as easy as she imagined. Katka's desire for change starts to get out of hand. Things really do change in high school - just a little differently than she expected.
An authentic story about growing up, the search for one's own identity and the path to self-acceptance. Although anorexia plays one of the main roles in it, the most important part is - as is usual with Petra Soukupová - interpersonal relationships.
I'm fat, I read all the time, and I don't have any friends. But all that will change when I get to high school. First of all, I'm gonna lose weight. And I'm not gonna keep reading. And I'm gonna make a friend. I won't be weird anymore.
Petra Soukupová
(born. 1982) is one of the most successful contemporary Czech writers. She has published four books for children and eight books for adults, which have earned her numerous awards and nominations. For her debut K moři / To the Sea (2007) she received the Jiří Orten Prize for talented authors under thirty and was nominated for the Magnesia Litera Prize and the Josef Škvorecký Prize. Her second book, the short story collection Zmizet (2009), won the Magnesia Litera Award in the Book of the Year category and was also nominated for the Josef Škvorecký Award. Her children's books Bertík a čmuchadlo (2014) and Kdo zabil Snížka? (2017) was listed in the prestigious White Ravens catalogue of the best children's and young adult books from around the world. A unique blend of children's adventure story Who Killed Snowman? The third children's book, The Club of Strange Children (2019), and the novel in short stories, The Things It's Time for (2020), both crossed the 10,000-copy bestseller mark shortly after their publication. Marta in the Year of the Intruder (2011) and Under the Snow (2015) were also successful. At the end of 2022, the novel Nobody is Alone was published, followed a year later by the children's book Strange Children and the Sad Cat - a loose sequel to The Strange Children's Club. Petra Soukupová's books have been translated into more than ten languages. In addition, she has written several screenplays based on her books (in 2018, the film Na kratko (For a Short Time) was based on a short story from her book Zmizet (Disappear)) and she also works as a dramaturge.
