The novel Fire presents the Czech reader for the first time in France the already well-known author Maria Pourchet, whose straightforward, even brutal view of contemporary civilization and original literary style will not leave anyone cold. The heroes of the story, the bank manager Clément, who shares the depression of the world of finance only with his dog, and the professor and mother of two daughters Laura, disappointed with her life full of compromises, reflect in their destinies the unfulfilled desires of several generations. The burning story of their passion takes place against the background of the covid pandemic, ecological efforts to save the planet, global debt and other topics of today. The book, which combines desire with hell, heat with burnout, fire with ashes, and hopelessness with humor, brings more than an unusual reading experience: it is a contribution to the diagnosis of our burning epoch.