The Hunt

These wide-ranging stories transport the reader to foreign lands. Although the atmosphere and local colour of the narrative changes, the heroes are united in their desire to break free of the everyday as they search for ever-elusive visions. The man in the title story longs to catch up with his lost youth. An immigrant worker at a Spanish supermercado flees the agonies of reality by climbing to the higher shelves of spirituality. At a photography festival, a photographer long bereft of inspiration hunts for images in vain. Little Jakub seeks to defeat his loneliness by populating a room left empty by a missing family member with products of his imagination. The pursuit of adventure in the Sahara leads two young Europeans into a tourist trap. In Plovdiv, an eccentric foreigner plans to wait out the end of the world. Where will this chase after fantasies lead? And in this hunt, who is the hunter and who is the prey?