Jardín de invierno

A fragile love story in a historic context both passionate and dramatic.

Eva has, from an early age, enjoyed the cultural and exquisite atmosphere of her native Prague, where she lives divided by the love of two antagonistic men: Karel, and artist with an exacerbated sensibility, and Milan, a militant communist somewhat uncouth. Added to the amorous uncertainties are the historic vicissitudes of Eastern Europe, which will change their relationships time and again: Stalinism, the Prague Spring, inner dissidence and, finally, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the transition to democracy and free market.

“Winter Garden is an imposing novel which spans the last seventy years of the history of the Czech Republic… A gorgeous swan song, which transmits all the strength of pleasure, of passions, of plenitude and of hope.” Luis Muntada, El País.

“The scenes from Winter Garden are reminiscent of Milos Forman, and transmit a feeling of euphoric bliss. It’s the small story at the heart of great novels, never better dealt with.” Julià Guillamon, La Vanguardia

“Winter Garden is so well resolved that the readers succumb before the narrative art of its author and are carried away without quite realizing it by the breadth of the conceptual strength of the piece.” Sam Abrams, El Mundo.

“Zgustova is the heiress of a very rich and brilliant Central European tradition that extends all the way from Zweig or Kafka to Marai, Hrabal, Kundera o Kertész.” Mercedes Montmany, ABC.