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Chaloupky
Author: Štěpán Javůrek
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In Chaloupky, the Ore Mountains form a setting where personal lives meet the history of the first half of the twentieth century. Shortly after the founding of Czechoslovakia, two boys from the interior arrive in the borderlands and must find their place among the local inhabitants. Štěpán Javůrek connects their lives with the stories of families and neighbors.
This Czech-language eBook offers a novel about home, friendship, and human relationships in a specific mountain landscape. The prologue in the supplied excerpt introduces a strong retrospective perspective on returning to one's native region. The vanished villages of Chaloupky and Jelení give the narrative a local grounding. It will appeal to readers of family and historical stories set in the Czech borderlands.
Javůrek's novel connects two boys' lives with the mountain borderlands. The everyday relationships of families and neighbors unfold against a changing historical backdrop.
Book information
- Author
- Štěpán Javůrek
- Publisher
- MOBA
- Formát
- E-book
- Language
- Czech
- Genre
- Historický román
- ISBN
- 978-80-279-0041-1
- Publication date
- 1. January 2021
- Pages
- 288
- E-book formats
- EPUB (ISBN 978-80-279-0076-3) · MOBI (ISBN 978-80-279-0077-0)
What is Chaloupky about?
The starting point is a move from the Czech interior to the Ore Mountains after the republic's founding. Ordinary joys and worries, love, friendship, and hostility take center stage.
Part of the story is set in Chaloupky and Jelení. The excerpt frames the relationship with the landscape through memory and a desire to return, without revealing the characters' later lives.
Themes and motifs
Home
An emotional bond with the landscape and the place where one lives.
The borderlands
Neighborly and family relationships in the Ore Mountains.
Memory
Returning to the world of disappearing villages.
Setting
The Ore Mountains, especially Chaloupky and Jelení, in the first half of the twentieth century.
Who is this book for?
For readers of historical and family fiction set in the Central European borderlands.
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What is Chaloupky about?
Javůrek's novel connects two boys' lives with the mountain borderlands. The everyday relationships of families and neighbors unfold against a changing historical backdrop.
What language is this title in?
Czech.
Which electronic formats does AudioSpace list?
EPUB, MOBI.
What page count does the supplier list?
288 pages.
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