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Miřenka Čechová: Miss AmeriKa

Illustration
  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: October 24, 2018, 19:00 – 21:00

The book Miss AmeriKa is a fictitious document centred on the Eastern European illegal alien McKenzie Tomski that sarcastically depicts her experiences of New York, its inhabitants and trends and her own journey. Miřenka Čechová wrote the raw short stories during an artistic residence she spent in the Big Apple. Inspired by the city, fascinated by its people and their stories and overwhelmed by opportunities and absurdities, she delivers an uncompromisingly candid report about the state of the world through the eyes of McKenzie Tomski. Čechová’s blonde wig wearing alter ego isn’t afraid to demolish US clichés or hyper-correctness but at the same time follows her American dream of “making it someday”.

The performer Miřenka Čechová will present her book in conversation with Zdenka Součková, director of the American Spring festival. 

Co-organised by the Václav Havel Library and Echoes of the American Spring Festival.

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