Vanity

Dystopian novel set in the year 1958, when Slovakia was part of the Euro-Asian Union and the world exhibition EXPO 58 opened in New Bratislava. In the territory of Slovakia vanity was being mined – a newly discovered element, nihilium, formed in the soil by generations of our ancestors, gave the country its current name, Nihilia. Nihilium fuelled the economy of the Euro-Asian Union, led by the Russian empire and its satellites. The protagonist, the fifteen-year-old son of the nihilium's discoverer, rebels against the absurd world he lives in and wants to change it. 

Number of pages

208

Language

Slovak language

Year

2022

Book category

Fantasy-Science Fiction

Original

Márnosť

Original language

Slovak language

Published in

Bratislava

Country

Slovakia

ISBN

978-80-569-0801-3

Book cover

Hardcover