The publishing house itself comments on the work: “Tereza is twelve years old. Ivan, her drawing teacher, is fifty.
For more than five years they will be bound by a tangled relationship of power, imbalance, sex, and obsession.
Tereza will confide in her friend Silvia and search for words to name the sensation that churns inside her. Ivan will keep the secret and dream of clocks that tick and chase him. When he grows drunk, he will repeat: “You resemble my daughter so much, do you know how terrifying that is?”
Nicol Hochholczerová has written a deliberately ambiguous novel. Her prose, sharpened through minimalism and symbolism, follows Tereza in her compulsion to devour what does not nourish her. The gray hairs that fall into Ivan’s lap, the limbs of his other lovers, the walls of his childhood room. Tereza chews and swallows, but her body is unable to digest and assimilate the world that unfolds before her. She chokes on her hunger for pleasure and pain, for understanding the bulimic mechanisms that govern her desire.
Translated into eight languages, shortlisted for Slovakia’s most prestigious prize — the Anasoft Litera — and at the same time banned in schools by the prize’s sponsor, This Room Impossible to Eat arrives in Spanish bookstores as one of the most controversial and challenging debuts in recent European literature.”
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Author: Nicol Hochholczerová. Title: This Room Impossible to Eat Translator: Mónica Sánchez Presa. Publisher: La Caja Books. Sales: All Your Books.