Stop for a moment and read the stories that time has taken away, but have never completely disappeared. In his new novel Vltavice, writer Jan Štifter (42) brings to life the fate of a Šumava village that disappeared beneath the surface of the Lipno dam. In an interview, he revealed how he pieced together fragments from archives and the landscape while writing, and why he started learning to dive in order to explore the Lipno seabed.
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Stop for a moment and read the stories that time has taken away, but have never completely disappeared. In his new novel Vltavice, writer Jan Štifter (42) brings to life the fate of a Šumava village that disappeared beneath the surface of the Lipno dam. In an interview, he revealed how he pieced together fragments from archives and the landscape while writing, and why he started learning to dive in order to explore the Lipno seabed.