In the end everybody is able to hold the past in their hands and to inhale the "odour of memories"; a past which isn´t tainted by the compulsive nostalgia of a homesick expatriate community. "Life´s beautiful. Driving you mad beautiful. It´s not like that. But I see it that way", once written by Hrabal. Markéta Pilátova has produced a wonderful novel out of this authorial life maxime.
FAZ, Sabine Berking
You have to look quite thoroughly in the Czech contemporary literature to find such a successful debut of prose.
NZZ, Andreas Breitenstein