num_pages: 334
description: The Czech author Boena Nmcov (1820-1862) born in Vienna paints an entirely unsentimental portrait of the country habits and customs of Bohemia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire and depicts the people she encountered during her childhood: teachers maids farm workers millers foresters priests to name but a few. The central character of this story set in Eastern Bohemia is a grandmother full of simple wisdom goodness and love who personifies an ideal of maternal care. The Proek family live in this country idyll but their fathers work means that he is compelled to spend a large part of the year in the imperial city of Vienna. Thus their grandmother is brought home to look after the children and the property. This is the background against which the author unfolds the most important prose work in Czech literature and creates one of the best female characters in world literature.
language: English
title: The Grandmother
publisher: Vitalis