Kniha o cintoríne is a charmingly amusing book and it can be read just like that. The reader can relish the abundance of excellently invented or observed psychological details, apt and uncommon insights into and descriptions of the characters and the motley bustle of a small town in general. The stories that Samko ascribes to different people form a Schweik-like oral history of our times.
Pavel Vilikovský
The story has a certain delightful naivety and this is partly due to the inclusion of a wide range of people from the fringes of society. The book is therefore about Komárno, about everyday failures, about little pleasures and great tribulations, as well as the ludicrous nature of endeavour, about the feeling of hopelessness and being lost in the chaos of the past and present.
Zuzana Belková
Simple-minded Samko Tále and his remarkable testimony to our society before and after the Velvet Revolution as seen in Komárno. A masterly tragi-comic study.
Lubomír Machala
Of Daniela Kapitáňová it really cannot be said that she follows well-trodden paths. For example, rather than the conventional “exalted” genres, she is attracted to detective stories. Not the modern crime thrillers, where the emphasis is more on brutality and sex than on a solution to the crime, but the more “old-fashioned” kind where logic and wit still play an important role.
Kornel Földvári
