fiction(75)

Saturnin - francouzsky

The French edition of Zdeněk Jirotka's humorous novel, whose main hero is the legendary and loyal servant Saturnin, who fights aunt Kateř...

A World Apart and Other Stories

“It grew dark and a mist spread over the countryside like a curtain. We were at the Bohemian border. Customs control, shouting, the din o...

Czech Women Writers at the Fin de Siècle

Chvění je naděje

Journalist and essayist Karel Hvížďala is known for his interviews with prominent figures of primarily Czech political and cultural world...

Záznamy od března 2021 do začátku války v únoru 2022

Tales of the Prague Ghetto

Trained in philosophy and medicine, the writer, translator, scholar, and political and cultural activist Siegfried Kapper (1821–1879) dev...

Ear

A paranoid thriller of life under surveillance in Communist Czechoslovakia. A deputy minister in the Communist Party, Ludvík enjoys all t...

The Lesser Histories

From the eighth floor of a tower block in Central Europe, Jan Zábrana surveyed the twentieth century. He had been exiled from his own lif...

But Crime Does Punish

"So, as you see, I am familiar with the case. However, we can’t discuss it unless you learn more about some other court cases, so that yo...

Saturnin - vietnamsky

Saturnin was first published in 1942 and since then there have been more than twenty editions in Czech and its author has become a nation...

Saturnin - ukrajinsky

Saturnin was first published in 1942 and since then there have been more than twenty editions in Czech and its author has become a nation...

Sari gelin

Sari gelin, a selection of modern Azerbaijanian short stories, attests to the life of this Caucasian country both geographically and cult...

Antologie povídek z Ázerbájdžánu

Ploughshares into Swords

“The terrible bow was drawn taut. Men had let their powers be taken captive and had become the stooges of governments, they had become dr...

Lamentation for 77,297 Victims

Jiří Weil’s documentary prose poem, Lamentation for 77,297 Victims is a literary monument to the Czech Jews killed during the Holocaust. ...