Katerina Tucková

Viimeiset jumalattaret on faktaa ja fiktiota yhdistävä mysteeriromaani Valkoisten Karpaattien juurella eläneistä "jumalattarista", joiden kohtaloa nuori etnologi Dora Idesová alkaa tutkia.Romaani on kiehtova tarina piilossa pidetystä historiasta, se kertoo kansanparantamisesta ja naisista, joilla oli poikkeuksellisia kykyjä parantaa ja antaa apua kaikenlaisiin kärsimyksiin. Eletään 1990-luvun loppua, ja Dora saa sisäministeriön arkistosta käsiinsä turvallisuuspoliisin asiakirjan ”valtion sisäisestä vihollisesta”, tädistään jumalatar Surmenasta. Epäuskoinen Dora alkaa kaivaa esille tarkempia yksityiskohtia perheensä ja muiden jumalattarien aiemmin tuntemattomista kohtaloista. Tutkimusten edetessä Doralle avautuu Žítkován jumalattarien kohtalo, ja hän yllättyy huomatessaan, että vaikka hänestä itsestään ei tullut jumalatarta, hän on silti erottamaton osa sukunsa vuosisataisia perinteitä.Tuckován tositapahtumista ammentava teos on taidokas sekoitus mysteeriromaania, faktaa ja fiktiota. Viimeisen Žítkován jumalattaren, Irma Gabrhelován (1905-2001) mökki on nykyisin museona, se sijaitsee Ciernéssä, Karpaattien länsilaidalla lähellä Slovakian rajaa.Teos on käännetty jo 21 kielelle, ja se on saanut seuraavat palkinnot:Josef Škvorecký Award 2012Czech Bestseller Prize 2012Magnesia Litera 2013 - Readers' AwardCzech Book Award 2013 - Readers' AwardPremio Salerno Libro d'Europa 2018

The award-winning novel by Czech author Katerina Tucková—her first to be translated into English—about the fate of one woman and the pursuit of forgiveness in a divided postwar world.1945. Allied forces liberate Nazi-occupied Brno, Moravia. For Gerta Schnirch, daughter of a Czech mother and a German father aligned with Hitler, it’s not deliverance; it’s a sentence. She has been branded an enemy of the state. Caught in the changing tides of a war that shattered her family—and her innocence—Gerta must obey the official order: she, along with all ethnic Germans, is to be expelled from Czechoslovakia. With nothing but the clothes on her back and an infant daughter, she’s herded among thousands, driven from the only home she’s ever known. But the injustice only makes Gerta stronger, more empowered, and more resolved to seek justice. Her journey is a relentless quest for a seemingly impossible forgiveness. And one day, she will return.Spanning decades and generations, Katerina Tucková’s breathtaking novel illuminates a long-neglected episode in Czech history. One of exclusion and prejudice, of collective shame versus personal guilt, all through the eyes of a charismatic woman whose courage will affect all the lives she’s touched. Especially that of the daughter she loved, fought for, shielded, and would come to inspire.

Na kruchakh Bilikh Karpat viddavna zhili zhinki, obdarovani unikalnimi zdibnostjami. Voni vmili likuvati, znali, jak dopomogti u bud-jakij bidi, mogli poraditi u skruti, a sche kazhut, scho voni peredbachali majbutnje. Jikh nazivali "boginjami", a svoji vminnja voni peredavali z pokolinnja v pokolinnja. Dora Idesova - odna z ostannikh predstavnits rodu zhitkovskikh bogin. I khocha vona ne perejnjala jikhnikh umin, ale zdobula etnografichnu osvitu j virishila prisvjatiti jim gruntovnu naukovu rozvidku.Naprikintsi 90-kh rokiv u Pardubitskomu arkhivi Ministerstva vnutrishnikh sprav Cheskoji Respubliki z'javljajetsja operativno-rozshukova sprava organiv Derzhbezpeki, zavedena na vnutrishnogo voroga - jiji titku, boginju Surmenu. Dora rozsliduje doli zhitkovskikh bogin i z podivom z'jasovuje, scho khoch sama bogineju ne stala, ale neviddilno prinalezhna do tsijeji tajemnichoji traditsiji.

A woman delves into science and superstition, fear and persecution, and the hope and courage of belief in an award-winning and internationally bestselling novel by Katerina Tucková.Last in a centuries-old lineage of healing women, Dora Idesová was raised by her aunt Surmena in the White Carpathians. Resistant to superstition, Dora grew up hearing stories of the “goddesses” who were said to conjure love and curses and, through divine connection, cure the spirit and the body. Now an academic, Dora is researching the tales that for generations spellbound the hillside where she grew up. As the mysteries become truths, they reveal a stunning discovery that reaches back from the witch trials of the seventeenth century through Nazi-occupied Germany. Embarking on an emotional journey, Dora is about to find out how deeply and fatefully she is entwined with secret tradition.Beautifully weaving together fact, folklore, and fiction, Katerina Tucková draws on the stories of her ancestors to explore the extraordinary history of goddesses who walked the earth.