A Wish

About the Book

Main characters in the collection of short stories written by the Czech author Lubomír Mikisek are quite ordinary people like us. With turbulent sensitivity and often with scars on their souls, they wish to step out of their stereotypes and find someone who would understand and love them. Desire usually remains hidden but can erupt from time to time. Then, a wish emerges too. Main characters often make decisions whether to realize these desires and wishes, maybe by making only an undaring move forward or waiting for a coincidence that could bring them happiness, and then even a miniscule episode suddenly turns into a deep internal drama. Sometimes, disappointment arrives; at other times, a journey of new hope opens. Those who lend a helping hand before asked, are not absent from the stories either. The deeply psychological fiction is written in a readable and gripping style, providing exact descriptions and a poetic touch, and surprises with an unexpected punchline or an open end. As if the author was telling the reader - it can happen to you too. Under the cover of the seemingly everyday reality, it is possible to extent a hand out, let a rose blossom although it sometimes has thorns. The author’s fiction is thought-provoking, makes us sympathize with others and often soothes unexpectedly too. It is definitely nothing minor in the contemporary, presumably heartless and fast-moving world.

About the Author

Lubomír Mikisek was born on 2 January 1950 in Prague in the Czech Republic. He graduated from a secondary technical school, which specialized in mechanical engineering. He worked as a tooling department manager in the ŠKODA Company in Pilsen for many years. So far, he has published his work in newspapers and magazines in the Czech Republic and abroad and received awards from various national literary contests. He made his debut with this collection of short stories called A WISH and published it in the Czech Republic in 2005. In 2008, he also published a novel for women called WHEN DRAGONFLIES DANCE.