A new novel by a four-time Magnesia Litera Award winner.
A train travels through the nineteenth century and heads towards us. Once the richest man in the world, John D. Rockefeller discovered the power of oil and that having power also means the right to want anything. George Sand discovered that she could be the freest woman in the world, smoke a pipe, love and betray men and women. And create. And Božena Němcová? She's got a husband of sorts, four children, a wolf's hunger and a huge talent. And a nation that neither helps nor forgives. And a desperate need for freedom and writing in spite of it all.
Radka Denemark's essential and multi-layered novel confronts the lives of these three people in short episodes, not for their sake and history, but for the themes that have recurred in various forms ever since - the freedom of women, the ruthless power of money and the invisibility of poverty, the greatness of the world and the smallness of one nation... and the invincible power of art!
Czech edition