Fading

Author: Klara Vlasakova Publication date: 2025 Book classification: Short stories and novels Publisher: Hayat Publications Number of pages: 275 Format: Paperback Synopsis: "If elderly women formed a line and asked them to undress, you would see nothing beneath their clothes; just emptiness starting from below the neck and ending above the knees, where the legs reappear. The disappearance of this space does not interest anyone, 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, the parliament does not discuss it, and no protests are organized about it. The utmost response to this unprecedented loss is a forgiving smile." *Mary, 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 this from a different perspective. Klara Vlasakova narrates poetically and boldly about the relationship between mothers and daughters, with its hidden struggles, and the relationship between mother and woman, revealing what is kept hidden in the body and left unspoken.*