Three generations, three attitudes to life. Grandfather, father, daughter.

Literary fiction

The grandfather spends his retirement writing chain emails about how the normal world is disappearing and becomes a conspiracy-theory celebrity. The father, Vladimír, a computer expert and fan of scientific progress, has single-handedly worked his way up to a high-paid position in a tech firm. He’s fond of calculating everything he’s done for the good of his family and humanity, and the result he comes up with is always that he can be justifiably proud of himself. That is, until he finds out his daughter Julie has become an environmental activist uncompromisingly fighting against the very things he believes in.

Michal Kašpárek’s acerbic novel reads like a catalogue of intergenerational misunderstandings. Three different worldviews collide in sharply delineated situations and witty dialogue.

Michal Kašpárek (1984) is an editor and journalist. Since 2021 he has worked at Samizdat – Czech Radio’s data team. He has published opinion pieces, reviews and interviews in Finmag and in a number of other Czech magazines. His novella Hry bez hranic (Games Without Borders) was published in 2018.