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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 ...

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 ...

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...

Rambling On (paperback)

Bohumil Hrabal (1914–97) has been ranked with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Čapek, and Milan Kundera as among the greatest twentieth-century Czec...

An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab

Hora Zlodějka

The five fairy tales presented in this book, written by Karel Šiktanc and named after one of them, are accompanied by similarly brilliant...

Engel des Erinnerns / Anděl vzpomínek

Das deutsch-tschechische Lesebuch Engel des Erinnerns stellt fünf deutsche Gegenwartstexte im Original und in der Übersetzung von jungen ...

Deutsch-tschechisches Lesebuch / Německo česká čítanka

Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life

Written between 1954 and 1957 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakia’s postwar Communist regime, Midway Upon the Jo...

Un été capricieux

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 ...

Of Mice and Mooshaber

Ladislav Fuks is an outstanding Czech writer, whose works primarily consist of psychological fiction focusing on the themes of anxiety an...

Rukověť pábitelského učně

Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914–97) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turnin...

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