Przdniny s Juli – CDmp3 (te Alena Vrnov)

This Czech-language MP3 audiobook, read by Alena Vrnov, follows Julie, the orphaned niece of Mr Bouek and the living embodiment of his idea of a life tragedy. Although she attends a boarding school in Prague, she spends her two-month summer holiday, apart from Sundays, at her uncles villa in Douovice. Peaceful and single, at least until then, Mr Bouek has his own ideas about how a young girl should look and behave, but Julie meets neither expectation. She is useful in only one respect: with unerring certainty, she can extinguish even the strongest ardour of marriage-minded young women and even drive them into open flight. After Mr Bouek voluntarily clears out one beautiful summer day before Julies birthday party, full of Alks and Milans, he returns home engaged, giving his niece a new problem to deal with, to her amusement and outrage. With the help of her dazzling accomplice, Julie devises a plan to resolve the delicate situation, though not in a particularly elegant manner according to Mr Bouek, and to get something out of it as well. This comic novel by the author of Eva trop hlouposti and Takov normln rodinka is full of situational humour and sharply crafted dialogue. Fan Vavincov herself considered Holidays with Julie her favourite of her stories.