Šamanský růženec

Ondřej Sekana's literary debut Shamanic Rosary is based on the stories of La Inthonkaew (born around 1980), a native of Thailand who has lived in Prague for almost two decades. Here she began to work as an artist, which can be classified as outsider art - details from her paintings freely accompany the book. Prose is a cycle of one hundred and eight reminiscent "visions" of her extraordinary journey. The Shaman's Rosary can be read as a compelling testimony to the living conditions on the edge of the jungle, its harshness and spirituality, its extraordinary customs, social norms and the mentality of a culture still exotic to us. But one of the essential lines of the adventure story is also the heroine's gradual and uneasy discovery of the Czech environment; she sees it, like the whole world, through the unique perspective of a woman whose father was a rural shaman. Above all, however, the prose stands out for its literary qualities - concise language, dense and colourful imagery, dramatic plot twists and evocative rhythm.