fiction(76)

Spolek pro ochranu zvířat

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 ...

The Pied Piper

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...

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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

Le Chasseur de rats (paperback)

This novella, written by poet, fiction writer, playwright and journalist Viktor Dyk, was first published as serial in a magazine in 1911–...

Odkud vítr vane

Antologie povídek z jihovýchodní Evropy

Saturnin - anglicky (paperback)

On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a best-seller. This is entirely appropriate, for while Saturnin draws on a trad...

We Were a Handful (paperback)

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 ...

The Cremator (paperback)

“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...

Summer of Caprice (paperback)

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 ...

God's Rainbow

This is a book about collective guilt, individual fate, and repentance, a tale that explores how we can come to be responsible for crimes...

Behind the Lines (paperback)

The collection of short stories entitled Behind the Lines: Bugulma and Other Stories draws on Hašek’s experience from revolutionary Russi...

Klapzubova jedenáctka

This already classic story by Eduard Bass from 1922 tells the story of father Klapzuba, who has raised his eleven sons as phenomenal socc...