Fading

Book title: Fading Publisher: Hayat Publications Author: Klara Vlasakova "If you stopped elderly women in a row and asked them to remove their clothes, you would see nothing beneath their garments; just emptiness starting from below the neck and ending above the knees, where the legs reappear. The fading of this space does not arouse anyone's interest, they do not write about it in newspapers, nor mention it online, not even in books that usually capture the world's oddities from time to time. Every day, tons of bones, tissues, and hundreds of hectares of blood evaporate! Yet, the police do not intervene, Parliament does not discuss it, and protests are not organized about it. The utmost response to this unprecedented loss is a forgiving smile." Maria, a widow in her sixties, feels on her daughter’s wedding night that she has lost her forever, and tries to regain herself in a world that is about to ignore her. Meanwhile, her daughter Rosa prepares for her role as a mother, and her mother discovers her from a different perspective. Klara Vlasakova narrates poetically and boldly about the relationship between mothers and daughters, with the hidden struggle they carry, and the relationship between mother and woman, to reveal what is hidden in the body and not spoken.