In Search of Paradise
Lenka fantasises endlessly about the West. She’s sick of her buttoned-down, small-town existence in Bohemia; she wants to be an actress, wear proper western designer jeans and stop having to ...
moreRena Dumont
Rena Dumont was born in 1969 in Prostejov, a small town in Moravia. At the age of seventeen she escaped to Germany with her mother, and they spent eight eventful weeks in an asylum seeker`s home on the shores of Lake Königsee before moving on to Munich. Four years later, Rena relocated to Hanover to attend drama school, and has been appearing at various German- speaking theatres – the Munich Kammerspiele, Vienna Playhouse and Prague National Theatre to name but a few – as well as acting in numerous cinema and TV productions and writing screenplays and short stories. Paradiessucher is her first novel.