Nest\u00e1v\u00e1 se \u010dasto, aby si \u010desk\u00fd autor vybral jako t\u00e9ma pro svou prvotinu osudy lond\u00fdnsk\u00e9 aristokracie. V\u0161e je o to zaj\u00edmav\u011bj\u0161\u00ed, \u017ee n\u00e1s v\u00a0d\u011bji zav\u00e1d\u00ed do n\u011bkolika metropol\u00ed, v\u00a0nich\u017e potk\u00e1me osobnosti, kter\u00e9 v\u00fdrazn\u011b zas\u00e1hly do \u017eivota milion\u016f lid\u00ed, jak na britsk\u00fdch ostrovech, tak v\u00a0\u010ceskoslovensku. V. R. Mach<\/b> p\u0159ijal tuto v\u00fdzvu a \u010dten\u00e1\u0159 se st\u00e1v\u00e1 sv\u011bdkem nev\u0161edn\u00edho exkurzu do na\u0161\u00ed ned\u00e1vn\u00e9 minulosti.<\/p>\n
Ur\u010dit\u011b je pozitivem, \u017ee autor nelakuje skute\u010dnost na r\u016f\u017eovo. Naopak si v\u0161\u00edm\u00e1, jak mocn\u00ed a \u00factyhodn\u00ed mu\u017ei na cest\u011b za vyt\u010den\u00fdm c\u00edlem nev\u00e1haj\u00ed pou\u017e\u00edt v\u0161e, z\u00a0\u010deho maj\u00ed prosp\u011bch. V\u00a0tom vynikaj\u00ed p\u0159edev\u0161\u00edm st\u00e1rnouc\u00ed a potm\u011b\u0161il\u00fd Richard, XI. lord z\u00a0Duncanu, a man\u017eel jeho sest\u0159enice, geni\u00e1ln\u00ed strat\u00e9g a vlivn\u00fd poradce premi\u00e9rky Charles Gregor.<\/p>\n
A\u010d rodina podstupuje mno\u017estv\u00ed ne\u00faprosn\u00fdch souboj\u016f s\u00a0konkurenc\u00ed, jej\u00ed pl\u00e1ny pravideln\u011b hat\u00ed svou \u010dinorodost\u00ed Charlesova dcera Patricie. A pr\u00e1v\u011b s\u00a0p\u016fvabnou aristokratkou pro\u017e\u00edv\u00e1me jej\u00ed bou\u0159liv\u00e9 dosp\u00edv\u00e1n\u00ed, prvn\u00ed milostn\u00e1 vzplanut\u00ed, ne\u010dekan\u00e9 rozchody, ale t\u00e9\u017e \u00fasp\u011bchy ve \u0161kole a sportu.<\/p>\n
\u010cten\u00e1\u0159e zaujme, \u017ee Pat m\u00e1 po p\u0159edc\u00edch \u010desk\u00e9 ko\u0159eny, a tak nep\u0159ekvap\u00ed, \u017ee se na konci 80. let vyprav\u00ed do Prahy. A pr\u00e1v\u011b v srdci sametov\u00e9 revoluce si projde t\u011b\u017ekou \u017eivotn\u00ed zkou\u0161kou. I kdy\u017e v\u00a0n\u00ed obstoj\u00ed, ud\u00e1losti se vyvinou opa\u010dn\u00fdm sm\u011brem: hroz\u00ed, \u017ee se kv\u016fli pra\u017esk\u00e9mu pobytu v\u0161e spikne proti jej\u00ed lond\u00fdnsk\u00e9 rodin\u011b. Posledn\u00ed mo\u017enost\u00ed, jak se vyhnout nebezpe\u010d\u00ed, je obr\u00e1tit se na vysoce postavenou osobu. Jen\u017ee tou nen\u00ed nikdo jin\u00fd ne\u017e britsk\u00e1 kr\u00e1lovna Al\u017eb\u011bta II.<\/p>\n
V. R. Mach<\/b> ve sv\u00e9m debutu mistrn\u011b propl\u00e9t\u00e1 romanticky lad\u011bn\u00e9 pas\u00e1\u017ee, odehr\u00e1vaj\u00edc\u00ed se v\u00a0exkluzivn\u00edm prost\u0159ed\u00ed lond\u00fdnsk\u00e9 smet\u00e1nky, se syrovou realitou v\u0161edn\u00edho dne. Podobn\u011b uv\u00e1d\u00ed do kontrastu jedn\u00e1n\u00ed oby\u010dejn\u00fdch lid\u00ed a \u00fazk\u00e9 vrstvy \u201emocn\u00fdch a slavn\u00fdch\u201c. My tak m\u00e1me mo\u017enost spat\u0159it odvr\u00e1cenou tv\u00e1\u0159 popularity. P\u0159esto\u017ee je p\u0159\u00edb\u011bh vystav\u011bn na neust\u00e1le se m\u011bn\u00edc\u00ed dramatick\u00e9 lince, lze v\u00a0n\u011bm naj\u00edt b\u0159itk\u00fd humor, \u017eivotn\u00ed optimizmus a v\u00edru v\u00a0to lep\u0161\u00ed, co je v\u00a0lidech, bez ohledu na jejich status.<\/p>\n
Rom\u00e1n ur\u010dit\u011b p\u0159il\u00e1k\u00e1 fanou\u0161ky \u017e\u00e1nru rodov\u00e9 genealogie, jako\u017e i z\u00e1jemce, kte\u0159\u00ed se r\u00e1di vracej\u00ed do doby, kdy v Anglii vyhr\u00e1vala volby \u017delezn\u00e1 lady a u n\u00e1s zvonil um\u00edr\u00e1\u010dek komunistick\u00e9mu experimentu. V\u00a0r\u00e1mci literatury pro voln\u00fd \u010das je kniha, je\u017e vy\u0161la v\u00a0nakladatelstv\u00ed Klika, rozhodn\u011b kvalitn\u00edm \u010dten\u00edm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
V dob\u011b, kdy Brit\u00e1nii vl\u00e1dne pevnou rukou Margaret Thatcherov\u00e1, se o moc hl\u00e1s\u00ed nov\u00e9 skupiny. Jednou z nejdrav\u011bj\u0161\u00edch je spole\u010denstv\u00ed rodin zn\u00e1m\u00e9 t\u00e9\u017e jako \u201eDuncan-Gregor\u016fv klan\u201c. Mezi jeho nejv\u00fdrazn\u011bj\u0161\u00ed tv\u00e1\u0159e pat\u0159\u00ed pohledn\u00e1 studentka Westminstersk\u00e9 st\u0159edn\u00ed Patricie Gregorov\u00e1. Tato sympatick\u00e1 teenagerka je hrdinkou rom\u00e1nu Mil\u00e1\u010dek Anglie, poutav\u00e9ho p\u0159\u00edb\u011bhu, na jeho\u017e pozad\u00ed lze pozorovat zm\u011bny, kter\u00fdmi si pro\u0161la nejenom Anglie, ale t\u00e9\u017e na\u0161e republika.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recenze"],"acf":{"related_products":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxor.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxor.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxor.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxor.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxor.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxor.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxor.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxor.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxor.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxor.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}