The first part of the three-volume comic novel begins quite dramatically, when a young boy falls down an uncovered shaft near Plešivec. This event gradually reveals a whole panopticon of characters. In a small area we get to know, among others, a pathologist whose long-standing imaginary relationship with Natalia Portman has fallen apart; the chief of police in Plešivec, searching for which child psychologist working in the town is real and which one is just pretending to be a psychologist; the psychotic director of the local psychiatry; and, of course, Jon Bon Jovi. The die is cast and the story, full of suspense, absurd twists and tragicomic dialogue, can begin.


Daniel Majling (1980) is a playwright and writer. He was born in Revúca, Central Slovakia. He is a graduate of the Academy of Performing Arts, has worked with the Andrej Bagar Theatre in Nitra, the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava and the Dejvice Theatre in Prague. He is an editor and translator of Ruzká klazika book and the author of the comics Rudo (2014, Slovak 2019), which received the Muriel Award for the best translated comic of the year, and Zóna (2020).