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ZUZANA _x0158_ HOV studied Czech Language and Literature and Comparative Literature at the Charles University in Prague. She has been working at the Institute of Czech Literature since 2007 and was Head of Czech Studies at the University of Oxford from 2014-2017. _x0158_ihova, who has a lifelong interest in Czech avantgarde literature, has published a collection of poetry, I'll Let You in My House (Pustim si tě do domu , 2016), and a novella, Little Eve (Evička, 2018), which was named as one of the Books of the Year in 2018 by a Czech literary web magazine. ALEX ZUCKER's translations include novels by Magdalena Platzova, Jachym Topol, Bianca Bellova, Petra Hůlova, and Tomas Zmeskal. He has also Englished plays, subtitles, young adult and children's books, poems, philosophy, art history, and an opera.
“Eloquent and psychologically intense . . . I couldn’t help but be pulled along for the ride . . . [a] fantastic psychological horror that exceeded my expectations tenfold.” —Sammy Loree, Bookstr ""A devilishly creepy work of folk horror . . . A hair-raising tale of a culture clash."" —Publishers Weekly ""Playing Wolf is a fascinating combination of rural creepiness and gruesome fairy tale imagery. Zuzana Říhová’s prose, beautifully translated from the Czech by Alex Zucker, swirls with thoughts, paranoia, dread, and disappointment. You will cringe at the body horror, the wrong turns, the failure of the characters to see the danger before them, to escape the fairy tale they’ve inevitably fallen into. Gripping as it is harrowing!"" —Richard Mirabella, author of Brother & Sister Enter the Forest
