Michal Viveg is the most popular contemporary writer in the Czech Republic, the author of twenty books that have been translated into 25 languages. More than 3 million people became fans of his talent! Michal Viveg, as well as Milan Kundera, are known to Russian readers thanks to the brilliant translations of Nina Shulgina.

The main character of the novel is Laura, a twenty-two-year-old girl, beautiful, smart, amorous, prone to carnal pleasures. A chance meeting between Laura and Oliver, a forty-year-old advertising creative, witty and well-read, continues: fleeting glances in a hotel restaurant result in a serious romance. Returning to Prague, they become closer, and Laura is for the time being happy in Oliver's arms. One day, her mother, Yana, unexpectedly appears in a young woman’s apartment, and - oh horror! - recognizes in Oliver her lover, nicknamed Pazhout, whom she met before marriage. This is how this amazingly intelligent and smart novel about women, a novel about love begins... The Geleos publishing house also published Michal Viweg’s novel “The Game of Knockout.”