fiction(72)

Saturnin - rusky

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

Saturnin - slovensky

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

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...

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...

Saturnino - španělsky

When the humour novel Saturnin was first published in 1942, it became an immediate bestseller and the book has become a classic of Czech ...

Seven Days to the Funeral

Seven Days to the Funeral is the fictionalised memoir of Ján Rozner, a leading Slovak journalist, critic, dramaturg, and translator. Rozn...

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

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 ...

Summer of Caprice

Vladislav Vančura's Summer of Caprice is commonly considered untranslatable. The playful style of the narrative, the level of language ma...

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 ...

Tales of the Prague Ghetto

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

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...