Hana
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It’s 1954 and nine-year-old Mira’s life is about to change forever. After a typhoid outbreak rages through her town, robbing her of her parents and siblings, the orphaned child is forced to live with her mysterious, depressive Aunt Hana, a figure both frightening and fragile. Gradually, Mira uncovers the secrets of their troubled family history and begins to understand why her aunt is so incapable of trusting herself and the world around her.
Deftly weaving two separate timelines, the harrowing reasons behind Hana’s reclusive way of life, the guilt she wears as palpably as a cloak, and the tattoo on her wrist, are revealed to Mira.
Alena Mornštajnová
Alena Mornštajnová is a teacher of English and translator and author of five successful novels. Rights for her latest novel Hana have been sold to thirteen countries: United Kingdom, Austria, Italy, Poland, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia, Latvia, Syria and Greece.
Julia Sherwood
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Julia Sherwood is a translator from Slovak, Czech, Polish, Russian and German into English (with Peter Sherwood), as well as into Slovak. She was born and grew up in Bratislava and studied English and Slavic languages and literatures at universities in Cologne, Munich and London, graduating with a Masters degree in 1983. After working for over 20 years in the NGO sector, she became a full-time freelance translator in 2010. She is currently living in London. Julia served as editor-at-large for Slovakia with the online translation journal Asymptote (2013–2023) and is the editor of Seagull Books’ Slovak List.
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