Tahiti Utopia

Talk and reading with Michal Hvorecky

The Slovakian author and journalist Michal Hvorecky reads from his latest book "Tahiti Utopia", in which he explores the idea of how history would have unfolded if Great Hungary had still existed and Slovakia had not. If the Slovaks had left Central Europe and dared to attempt a new state on the island of Tahiti instead. Hvorecky draws on the Slovakian folk hero Milan Rastislav Štefánik, who also explored the South Seas but died in a tragic airplane accident in an unexplained way. Set in 2020, the novel turns history on its head, looks at the new nationalism and tells of Slovakia from an unusual perspective.

In cooperation with: Honorary Consulate of the Slovak Republic in Stuttgart