This Room is Impossible to Eat ticket

In conversation with Nicol Hochholczerová, hosted by Joshua Jones 

When: 11/5/25 18:30 start (doors 18:10)

Where: 26a Crwys Road, CF24 4NL

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This Room is Impossible to Eat - £11

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About the book:

Courageous, controversial, surreal, graphic and original. In this contemporary folktale spanning six years of Tereza’s adolescence and young adulthood, her trusted middle-aged art teacher Ivan is at once wicked witch and wolf with seductive tongue. Meanwhile, her lukearm parents provide bread but also ethical neglect and body shaming, leaving the path clear to the gingerbread house and its oven, where a transgressive welcome awaits. Rich with symbolism, its explosive themes – of eating disorder, male abusive control and family dysfunction – are delicately handled with honesty and intelligence. We root for Tereza as she starts to recognise the long-lasting patterns of sexual grooming (where pleasure is weaponised), and break free for good. Comparable in its power and nuance with Birgit Banderbeke’s The Mussel Feast, and in its subject matter, with Consent by Vanessa Springora and Because by Joshua Mensch.

About the author:

Nicol Hochholczerová, who was born in 1999, grew up in Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia. In 2024, she completed a Master’s in graphic design at the Academy of Art in Banská Bystrica. Her short stories have garnered prizes in a number of literary competitions. Her book-length debut, Táto izba sa nedá zjesť (This Room Is Impossible to Eat) was shortlisted for Slovakia’s most prestigious literary prize, the Anasoft Litera Award, and has since been translated into Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Serbian, Polish and Ukrainian, with German and Macedonian translations underway. A feature film based on the book is in production. In 2022, Hochholczerová was named Young Artist of the Year by the Tatra Banka Foundation. The Polish translation was nominated for the Angelus literary prize, awarded to living authors from Central Europe