160 A view to the East

Hana returns to Bratislava to vote and cover the Slovak elections as a correspondent for an Italian radio station. Crossing the border, it's immediately clear to her that the country is changing, has already changed. With her gaze turned toward the East, to which a significant portion of the West now refers, Jana Karšaiová (I Don't Speak Russian, Feltrinelli) tells us about her lucid, political, and compelling novel, which is above all a call to remain vigilant, in the belief that the future is something we build and defend every day. In conversation with the author Chiara Codecà.