A Czech Dreambook
Vaculík, LudvíkIt’s 1979 in Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing restoration of repressive communism known as normalization, and Ludvík Vaculík h...
published: october 2019
recommended price: 540 czk
It’s 1979 in Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing restoration of repressive communism known as normalization, and Ludvík Vaculík h...
published: october 2019
recommended price: 540 czk
Described as “one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century,” Bohumil Hrabal ranks among the most important and widely transla...
A Full-length Portrait
published: october 2019
recommended price: 260 czk
A classical work of the 1960s Czechoslovak literature and film in a new publication of Iris Urwin Lewit’s translation. An original and re...
published: august 2019
recommended price: 280 czk
In the terrifying reality of the Terezín fortress, children were living and coming of age in the shadow of death, which was often only a ...
published: november 2018
recommended price: 290 czk
For The Pied Piper, Czech writer Viktor Dyk found his muse in the much retold medieval Saxon legend of the villainous, pipe-playing rat-c...
published: april 2018
recommended price: 280 czk
From political novels to surrealist poetry and censored rock and roll, Czech underground culture of the latter twentieth century displaye...
Czech Underground Literature and Culture (1948–1989)
published: april 2018
recommended price: 260 czk
This book is subtitled "A Humorous – If Possible – Novella from the Ghetto." It was published in 1969 by a famous satirist from Prague, a...
A Humorous – Insofar as That Is Possible – Novella from the Ghetto
published: april 2018
recommended price: 380 czk
“The devil’s neatest trick is to persuade us that he doesn’t exist.” It is a maxim that both rings true in our contemporary world and per...
published: february 2018
recommended price: 200 czk
Poet and artist Bohuslav Reynek spent most of his life in the relative obskurity of the Czech-Moravian Highlands; although he suffered at...
Selected Poems and Graphic Artworks, 1925–1971
published: september 2017
recommended price: 490 czk
This novella, written by poet, fiction writer, playwright and journalist Viktor Dyk, was first published as serial in a magazine in 1911–...
published: june 2017
recommended price: 280 czk
The acclaimed novel We Were a Handful is the humorous story of five small-town boys. In 1943 during one of the lowest points of his life ...
published: october 2016
recommended price: 280 czk
In Summer of Caprice (the classic novel of the Twenties that was adapted into the beloved film of the Czech New Wave in the Sixties) the ...
published: october 2016
recommended price: 280 czk