The Last Goddess, Katerina Tuckova
The Last Goddess, Katerina Tuckova
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The Last Goddess

Author: Kateřina Tučková, Andrew Oakland

Narrator: Nina Yndis

Unabridged: 13 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2022

Synopsis

A woman delves into science and superstition, fear and persecution, and the hope and courage of belief in an award-winning and internationally bestselling novel by Kateřina Tučková.Last in a centuries-old lineage of healing women, Dora Idesová was raised by her aunt Surmena in the White Carpathians. Resistant to superstition, Dora grew up hearing stories of the “goddesses” who were said to conjure love and curses and, through divine connection, cure the spirit and the body. Now an academic, Dora is researching the tales that for generations spellbound the hillside where she grew up. As the mysteries become truths, they reveal a stunning discovery that reaches back from the witch trials of the seventeenth century through Nazi-occupied Germany. Embarking on an emotional journey, Dora is about to find out how deeply and fatefully she is entwined with secret tradition.Beautifully weaving together fact, folklore, and fiction, Kateřina Tučková draws on the stories of her ancestors to explore the extraordinary history of goddesses who walked the earth.

About Kateřina Tučková

Kateřina Tučková is a Czech playwright, publicist, biographer, art historian, exhibition curator, and bestselling author of The Last Goddess and Gerta. She has won several literary awards, including the Magnesia Litera Award (for both Gerta and The Last Goddess), the Brno City Prize for literature, the Josef Škvorecký Award, and the Czech Bestseller Award. Kateřina is also the recipient of the Freedom, Democracy, and Human Rights Award from the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, and of the Premio Salerno Libro d’Europa at the book fair in Salerno, Italy. Between 2015 and 2018, she was a founder and first president of the Meeting Brno festival, focusing on international and intercultural dialogue. Kateřina currently lives in Prague and Brno, Czech Republic. Her books have been translated into nineteen languages, and her latest novel in Czech is Bílá Voda. For more information, visit www.katerina-tuckova.cz/en/.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Magrat on December 10, 2021

Madre mía este libro es super extraño. Hay cosas que me han encantado y otras con las que no he conectado para nada... Yo pensaba que conoceríamos la vida de varias diosas de los Cárpatos Blancos (curanderas, herboristas... ¡brujas!), pero en realidad vamos a seguir la investigación de Dora, la últi......more

Goodreads review by Baba Yaga Reads on May 12, 2022

Streghe queer, folklore slavo, società matriarcali dimenticate dalla storia europea, il tutto—incredibilmente—basato su una storia vera. Devo dire altro?......more

Goodreads review by Kristi Lamont on April 04, 2022

Whoo, boy. LOTS of stuff going on in my brain about The Last Goddess; had to sleep on it before attempting to put pen to paper, so to speak. First of all, this was a _very_ grim book. The thought that is stuck in my mind is, "Man's inhumanity to man." (Man being non-gender specific, in this instance.......more

Goodreads review by Patrizia on December 08, 2020

Il fascino di questa storia, annunciato dal titolo e dalla copertina di Keller, colpisce a effetto ritardato. Un mondo scomparso, che a lungo è sopravvissuto accanto a quello “normale” e per un po’ anche a dispetto di un regime che non favoriva certo fede e credenze popolari. Le dee erano guaritrici,......more

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