My Grandparents Avoided Total Deployment. But War Was Not Talked About at Home, Says Jakuba Katalpa

Her literary setting is the Czech-German border region. The same is true of her historical and romantic novel Úlice. Jakub Katalpa, whose real name is Tereza Jandová, was inspired by a Nazi labor camp that actually existed in the small town of Holýšov in the Pilsen region, with a population of five thousand, to which the author has a strong connection.