Marek Vadas ÚDOLIE – krst knihy

We invite you to the ceremonial premiere of Marek Vadas's new book ÚDOLIE in the Rómer House in old Bratislava. The book will be brought to life by Miroslava Vallová and Stanislav Vallo. DJ's Die Kartofelln will play at the end. The stories take place in an African autocratic country, where the government army terrorizes part of the civilian population. However, distance does not play a role here, because the situation is surprisingly similar to ours - not only because of the proximity of the war, but also because of the state's efforts to limit civil liberties. The interconnected stories told to a taxi driver in a city on the edge of conflict are based on real facts, and they are also the most Slovak book that Marek Vadas has written so far.

Marek Vadas (*1971) published the books Liečiteľ, Čierne na čiernom and Zlá četra, which take place in an African setting. In them, his handwriting is influenced by the indigenous folk style of storytelling, in which fact and fantasy, magic and dark humor, absurdity and dark existential tones are mixed. In the next book, Six Strangers, he returned to Slovakia — its theme is the forgotten anti-Roma pogrom, the subsequent silence of society, unacknowledged guilt, and individual and social memory. He made his debut in 1994, wrote eight books for adults, three for children's readers and is a laureate of the Anasoft litera Award, the most prestigious Slovak award for prose work. His works have been translated into fifteen languages.