The Cursed Land
E-book, Czech
The Cursed Land
A dark past will one day come to light
Michaela Klevisová leaves detective Josef Bergman behind for this novel set in the Šumava region, looking at a crime through the eyes of two young women whose lives are intertwined with places that have repeatedly experienced dramatic history. The remote village of Jelení Hora has a dark past, and even today, it is not an ideal place to live. It’s no wonder Gerda always wanted to leave and escape the past. But now she’s divorced, penniless, and has no choice but to return with her daughter to the humble cottage her parents left her. Linda arrives in the same place for a holiday, searching for her family's history, who moved away forty years ago. Soon, a death occurs in the village, and both women uncover a strictly guarded secret related to a region where no one was destined to be happy.
In this book, the author of the successful detective series focuses on interpersonal relationships in an environment adjacent to a national park and a military area, rather than a crime plot. Through the past of the local inhabitants, she reveals a history full of twists and turns, which prevented some from putting down deep roots in these places and unexpectedly tied others to the Šumava region.
Awards: Czech Book Prize 2022, nominated for the Czech Book Prize 2021
What they wrote about the book:
. Michaela Klevisová has created a work that is great in its ordinariness and proves that she belongs among the elite of the contemporary Czech literary scene, because only the best creators can play out a strong story with significant scope on a small field.
- knihydobrovsky.cz - Cursed Land
The author builds the novel's slightly chilling and dark atmosphere from the very beginning and does not abandon this mysterious aura throughout.
- knihazaknihou.cz - Cursed Land
Michaela Klevisová
Born in 1976 in Prague. She studied journalism at Charles University and has worked in the field since 1997. Her greatest hobby is travelling. She most enjoys visiting Nordic countries. As a child, she fell in love with the world of horse racing, which she remains keenly interested in to this day. For her debut, the crime novel Kroky vraha (The Killer's Steps), she received the Jiří Marek Award for the best detective book of the year from the Czech branch of the International Association of Crime Writers (AIEP). She repeated the same success with her novel Dům na samotě (A House in the Middle of Nowhere) (2011). Both books are part of the popular crime series featuring investigator Josef Bergman. A departure from the detective genre is her novel about a crime in the Šumava region, Prokletý kraj (Cursed Land) (2021). Klevisová is also the author of three short story collections about people and their cats.
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