The Long Version
by Petra Hůlová (Author); Alex Zucker (Translator)
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Pub Date Sep 08 2026 | Archive Date Sep 08 2026
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Description
In her early fifties, Czech author Sylvie Novak looks back on her successful career. As she embarks on a tour to promote her book of feminist essays—which she’s not convinced has captured the nature of gender inequality—her teenage daughter Judita finds her journals from her youth, discovering the intimate relationship she had with a much older writer. Judita is convinced the experience scarred her for life, whereas Novak considers her daughter’s views to be ignorant and absolutist, however critical she is towards the deep-seated machismo of Eastern European dissident cultures. Meanwhile, the man she loves has found a new, younger object of desire, leaving Novak to reflect on the decline of her sex appeal.
In The Long Version, we become spectators of Novak’s tightrope walk, balancing between the old generation and the new, love and desire, and above all the myriad interpretations of the past. Like Hůlová, Novak seeks not to lay blame or win sympathy, but to explore the shifting meanings of feminism at a time of polarized thinking and, perhaps, discover a path towards reconciliation.
Advance Praise
Praise for The Long Version
“Petra Hůlová has written a book of disillusionment and reconciliation with passionate feminism, with a particular focus on the body’s physiology.” —PETR FISCHER, literary critic and columnist
“A striking piece of self-criticism that packs a punch. A harsh, bruising and fierce confession of the heroine—an ageing intellectual, mother of two children and lover of many men—uttered in one breath. And so it reads.” —ALENA MACHONINOVÁ, Russian studies scholar
“Petra Hůlová’s novel gives us the opportunity to experience the changing of two generations, during which the younger group goes into a blind frenzy and sets off on a crusade to condemn the older generation.” —S. D. CH., playwright
Praise for The Movement
“One part Animal Farm, one part The Handmaid’s Tale, one part A Clockwork Orange, and (maybe) one part Frankenstein, Czech writer Hůlová’s novel dismantles the patriarchy and replaces it with a terrifying alternative.” —Kirkus Reviews
“A thought-provoking and disturbing dystopian tale of a feminist revolution.” —Publishers Weekly
Marketing Plan
- Advance galleys and digital reader copies
- Digital assets including trailer & author video
- Signed book plates available
- National TV, radio, print, and online review campaign
- Consumer-facing national advertising campaign on Shelf Awareness, Lithub, NPR, Foreword Reviews, Goodreads
- Virtual or in-person author events
- Book club discussion guide
- Bookstore co-op available
- Excerpt placement
- Social media campaign & Goodreads Giveaway
- Multi-city US tour with support from the Czech government, confirmed stops NYC, Boston, Toronto, Washington
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781642861693 |
| PRICE | $19.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 218 |