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The Last Goddess

A Novel

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A woman delves into science and superstition, fear and persecution, and the hope and courage of belief in an award-winning and internationally bestselling novel by Kateřina Tučková.

Last in a centuries-old lineage of healing women, Dora Idesová was raised by her aunt Surmena in the White Carpathians. Resistant to superstition, Dora grew up hearing stories of the “goddesses” who were said to conjure love and curses and, through divine connection, cure the spirit and the body. Now an academic, Dora is researching the tales that for generations spellbound the hillside where she grew up. As the mysteries become truths, they reveal a stunning discovery that reaches back from the witch trials of the seventeenth century through Nazi-occupied Germany. Embarking on an emotional journey, Dora is about to find out how deeply and fatefully she is entwined with secret tradition.

Beautifully weaving together fact, folklore, and fiction, Kateřina Tučková draws on the stories of her ancestors to explore the extraordinary history of goddesses who walked the earth.

©2012 Kateřina Tučková (P)2022 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Translation © 2022 by Andrew Oakland Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Magic Magical Realism Women's Fiction World Literature Fantasy Witchcraft
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Wow! I loved Gerta and as I’m going back to Czechia, I went to this book by the same author. I absolutely love this author’s well researched historical basis for her fiction. This book is about the healer/ herbalists who were persecuted first by witch hunts, then by the Nazi and Communist regimes. It’s about how those with power systematically destroy natural wisdom. The story unfolds through Dora’s research into archives, and personal testimony, alongside the story of Dora and the Žitková goddesses. I feel like I’ve learned so much by reading this, as with Gerta, and I’m quite blown away by it.

This author is amazing! Second book to blow me away and leave me feeling I’ve learned something new

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