{"product_id":"heaven-has-no-ground-hardcover","title":"Heaven Has No Ground - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHana Andronikova\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRoman Kostovski\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeaven Has No Ground\u003c\/i\u003e is the fierce, intimate story of Ama, a young woman who is reckoning with the death of her father when she receives her own cancer diagnosis and, contrary to the wishes of family and friends, decides to seek alternative treatments rather than conventional chemotherapy and radiation. While this book was published as a work of fiction to great acclaim in the Czech Republic, it follows very closely the life story of its author, Hana Andronikova, who wrote the book during a period of optimism in her own battle with breast cancer. Much like Hana, Ama travels the world to find guidance and healing-going to Peru to consult a shaman and receive the Amazon's wisdom; to communities of Christian believers and Native Americans in the Nevada desert; and to the holy sites of Israel. Using striking metaphors and intensely emotional language in journal entries, emails, and narrative fragments, Andronikova takes us with her on a remarkable journey as she comes to grips with her human limitations and celebrates her place in the circle of life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Zl?, Czech Republic, in 1967, \u003cb\u003eHana Andronikova\u003c\/b\u003e studied English and Czech literature at Charles University in Prague. After a detour into the corporate world, she turned to fiction writing and won instant acclaim for her first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of the Sundial\u003c\/i\u003e, receiving the Magnesia Litera Award for Best New Discovery in 2002. Her book of short stories, \u003ci\u003eHeart on a Hook\u003c\/i\u003e, cemented her national literary reputation; she was particularly noted for her use of time as a structural element. In 2007, she was sponsored by the U.S. State Department to attend the International Writing Program at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after her return home, and \u003ci\u003eHeaven Has No Ground\u003c\/i\u003e, though presented as a work of fiction, is a personal chronicle of her fight with the illness. For this work, she won the Magnesia Litera again in 2011, but lost the battle for her life at the end of that year. She was 44 years old.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoman Kostovski \u003c\/b\u003estudied Slavic languages at the College of William and Mary, University of Maryland, and Charles University in Prague. He taught Czech at George Washington University. He translates poetry and prose into English from Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, and Slovak. He has contributed his work to literary journals such as \u003ci\u003ePoet Lore\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAbsinthe-New European Writings\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWatchword Press\u003c\/i\u003e. His full-length translations include Arnost Lustig's \u003ci\u003eFire on Water\u003c\/i\u003e (Northwestern University Press; 2006), The Ratcatcher (Plamen Press; 2014), Farewell and a Handkerchief by V?ězslav Nezval (Plamen Press; 2020), \u003ci\u003eSteel Strings and Iron Curtains\u003c\/i\u003e (Plamen Press; 2019), an album of songs by Karel Kryl and Jarom? Nohavica. He was awarded the National Endowments of the Arts Literary Translation Fellowship for translating Hana Andronikova's novel \u003ci\u003eHeaven Has No Ground \u003c\/i\u003e(Plamen Press; 2023). He founded Plamen Press, an independent non-profit publishing house that promotes literature from Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe translated into English. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 302\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 14, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51778749628704,"sku":"9781951508371","price":32.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/4caa918425d313647a0eb007bb81d6da.webp?v=1780508081","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/heaven-has-no-ground-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}