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The long-awaited prose debut of the well-known and acclaimed playwright and director David Drábek (* 1970) defies any definition. The story of life after life in the landscape of a strange and fatal space-time gradually gradates and crystallizes into a beautifully sad humanistic narrative. The adventure of less than a dozen characters, who are thrown into the situation "after death" with existential non-logic and non-choice, guides the reader in an entertaining and thoughtful way through the imaginary labyrinth of the world and the pop of the heart, as we know these qualities from the best dramatic plays (Akvabely, trilogy Chocolate eaters etc.). The story of David, Obra, Gabriel, the Fenkos, the biblical Adam and Eve, as well as the eponymous Starena and the slightly horror-filled Emília Dřevojánková will amuse and outrage readers young and old, including non-readers. This long-awaited prose debut of the playwright defies any definition…