"Chocolate Blood": Reading and Conversation with Radka Denemarková

In her new novel, Czech author Radka Denemarková tells the story of the 19th century and its protagonists in a stunning way: globally relevant, highly topical, brilliant. To do this, she weaves the fates of historical figures into a panorama of violence, patriarchy, and exploitation: Czech writer Bozena Nemcová writes a patriotic fairy tale with a heavy hand in the mid-19th century, while her contemporary George Sand in France writes another...