Večer v ráji

Lucia Berlin did not win over readers and critics around the world until eleven years after her death: a collection of her short stories, Manual for Cleaners, was published by a major publishing house in 2015, was immediately a huge - and unexpected - success, and was subsequently translated into more than 30 languages. The collection An Evening in Paradise brings us another portion of Berlin's charm - in short stories inspired by her own fate, she talks about the relentlessness of life, about life's failures and shipwrecks, about the difficulty of finding hope where there is no hope... Even in the darkest experiences, however, the author manages to find beauty - and she does so without sentimentality and with a devilish sense of humour. Reading her short, punchy, murderously polished prose, we understand why American critics rank her alongside Raymond Carver, Alice Munro, and even Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, and why Lucia Berlin is now widely regarded across the ocean as one of the most interesting American short story writers of the 20th century.