Twenty Minutes in a Village

Jiří Padevět’s collection of twenty short stories Twenty Minutes in a Village takes the readers into the everyday world of the common people living their everyday lives full of work, worries but also fun, joy and occasional peace. All over Europe, similar countless fragments of life happened and are happening every single day; the stage setting, social order or weather may change but people remain the same. The hero of the story might be someone infinitely distant as well as someone we know. All gestures, movements, smiles and situations which appear in these micro-stories might have happened in a different order of events, in a different village, in a different country, or to completely different set of individuals; we can, however, quite certain that they really happened