Listopád [November]

Have you ever asked yourself what your life would have been like if everything had turned out differently in November 1989? What would our fates have been like if communism had not ended and we had remained behind the Iron Curtain separating us from the world and from each other? One of the most successful Czech writers, Alena Mornštajnová, surprises again. Her new novel is a dramatic story of an ordinary family that is divided and pitted against each other by the great history of one November night. We follow the story of Marie Hajná, who is arrested and sentenced to twenty years in prison for participating in demonstrations. She knows that she will probably never see her children grow up again, and only letters keep her alive. And also the hope that they will eventually meet again.