Dance of Castaways
I made a list of problems I’ve got: 1.I’m on my own, and I’ve got no clue where to find some people. 2.People are important, sure, but I’ve gotta be careful ‘cause anyone I meet could be infected. 3.A dead body shouldn’t just be lying around for more than three days without a fridge—so I need to get Grandma Kalabi to Desná and bury her by then. 4.I need to find a car, but I’m not sure I can learn how to drive in just three days. 5.If I manage to drive, I’d better make a map to figure out the route and avoid spots where they might catch me and lock me up in a containment station. Containment station = game over—I can’t let that happen. 6.I need to get my hands on a coffin.
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The book was awarded
Friedrich Gerstäcker Award,
Germany’s oldest prize
for youth literature and
The Evangelical Book Award 2008
Mojmir has just finished his apprenticeship, he's eighteen, and he's used to city life. But then a deadly pandemic strikes, and everything falls apart for him – just like it does for seventeen-year-old dancer Jesika, who has to give up her dream career in a musical. If it weren’t for the deadly EBS virus, their paths would never have crossed. Jesika learns to live without the stage, and Mojmír has to pick up a rifle to survive. The world they knew no longer exists. Dance of Castaways portrays dramatic life twists, the struggle against prejudice, and the protagonists' battle with their own fears in a time when the world has lost all its certainties, and everyone has to look out for themselves. Even in such times – or maybe especially in them – deep feelings can arise.
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