Among the books nominated for the prestigious Magnesia Litera Award this year was a graphic novel called Arno\u0161tova cesta, describing the life story of the great Czech Jewish writer Arno\u0161t Lustig. I met with his daughter Eva, a writer and documentary filmmaker herself, to discuss the book, and also to talk about the Arno\u0161t Lustig Foundation, which she is in charge of. However, I had to start by asking about an onion which she took out of her handbag upon entering the studio: