Agnes's Cycle

A series of four interconnected novels about the spiritual essence of Prague and Bohemia and their meaning within Europe.

It tells of kings, women, children, birth and death, of people of spirit, as well as people of power and powerlessness, but also of those whom history has forgotten. Of Europe and the small country at its heart. Of Prague and the ancient story that winds through its history. A cycle of four consecutive novels of the Czech royal family from the 13th century - straddled the border between Central Europe and Italy.

In the contours of real historical events, the author paints a vast fresco depicting contemporary themes such as the separation of man from the natural world, the power that man usurps over nature, but also over other people, women's roles and the individual and social search for the "true" path. Using specific historical material, she deeply criticizes the power structures of secular and church power, the systemic social detachment from the essence of humanity. The story begins with the birth of a girl named Agnes. It follows her through her magical childhood and adolescence, motherhood that forces her to make a fundamental life decision. It follows its consequences in the European power and spiritual network, it follows the son who will be born to Agnes, accompanied by prophecies about the last consecrated king before the end of the world. It follows his ambitions, the conquest of the northern and southern borders of Europe, but also his fall and death, which Agnes survives.

The novel is written from a woman's perspective, but it is not only about kings and large public worlds. Alongside them, it depicts a number of invisible (mainly women and children), inner worlds of the soul: faith and disappointment and hope. It reveals difficult-to-read stories at the bottom of history.