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| Banville, J. | Prague pictures | The author, an Irish writer, traces Prague's often tragic history and portrays the people who made it, painting a portrait of the Prague of today. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £9.99 | ||
| Březina, O. | Hidden History | Poetic essay with rich metaphorical language by one of the most prominent and influential poets of late 19th century. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £15.95 | ||
| Čapek, K. | The Absolute at large | In this satirical classic, a brilliant scientist invents the Karburator, a reactor that can create abundant and practically free energy. However, there is a powerful by-product - a spiritual essence "Absolute" - which causes the world's population to become consumed with religious and national fervour, ultimately leading to a devastating global war. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £10.95 | ||
| Čapek, K. | Apocryphal tales | In these tales, the author approaches great events and figures of history, myth and literature in startling, fresh ways. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £9.99 | ||
| Čapek, K. | Four Plays - R.U.R., The Insect Play, The Makropulos Case, The White Plague | This volume brings together four of the most popular plays by Karel Čapek, as relevant today as ever. In "R.U.R.', the Robot gradually takes over all aspects of human existence except procreation; "The Insect Play" is a satirical fable in which beetles, butterflies and ants give dramatic form to different philosophies of life; "The Makropulos Case" examines human mortality, and "The White Plague" is a savage and anguished satire against fascist dictatorship. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £14.99 | ||
| Čapek, K. | The Gardener's Year | This book combines a richly comic portrait of life in the garden, narrated month by month, with a series of delightful illustrations by the author's older brother and respected artist, Josef. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £7.99 | ||
| Čapek, K. | Letters from England: with illustrations by the author | Humorous, insightful and imbued with a profound humanity, these letters convey a bemused admiration for a country which in the 1920s still lived according to the memory of its greatness. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £10.99 | ||
| Čapek, K. | R. U. R. | In this anti-utopian science-fiction play, the Robot - an idea Čapek was the first to invent - gradually takes over all aspects of human existence except procreation. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £11.95 | ||
| Čapek, K. | Tales from two pockets | Collection of witty short stories written by one of the most renowned Czech writers. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £10.99 | ||
| Čapek, K. | Three novels: Hordubal, Meteor, An Ordinary Life | A trilogy of novels that share neither characters nor events; instead, they approach the problem of knowing people - of mutual understanding - in a variety of ways. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £11.99 | ||
| Čapek, K. | War with the Newts | One of the great anti-utopian satires of the 20th century; an inspiration to writers from Orwell to Vonnegut. A man discovers a species of giant, intelligent newts and learns to exploit them so successfully that the newts gain enough skills and arms to challenge man's place at the top of the animal kingdom. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £9.99 | ||
| Hakl, E. | Of kids & parents | A father and son take a walk through Prague, over the course of which, and in the pubs and bars they stop in, their personal lives are revealed as being entwined with the past sixty years of upheaval in their corner of Europe. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £9.00 | ||
| Hašek, J. | The Bachura scandal and other stories and sketches | A collection of 32 comic and satiric pre-1914 stories of Prague life revels in the twisted logic of politics and bureaucracy in the Czech capital which was also an Austrian provincial city. By the author of world-renowned autor of "The Good soldier Švejk". |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £9.95 | ||
| Hašek, J. | The Good soldier Švejk | One of the best known Czech novels, this book combines dazzling wordplay and piercing satire to create a hilariously subversive depiction of the futility of war. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £10.99 | ||
| Hrabal, B. | Closely watched trains | Subtle and poetic portrait of Milos Hrma, a timid young railroad apprentice who protects himself using fantasy against a reality filled with cruelty and grief. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £14.95 | ||
| Hrabal, B. | I served the King of England | Sparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, this book is a story of how the unbelievable came true. Its remarkable hero, Ditie, is a hotel waiter who climbs the ladder and becomes a millionaire only to lose it all again. Set against the backdrop of events in Prague, from the German invasion to the victory of Communism. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £7.99 | ||
| Hrabal, B. | In-house weddings | Inspired byt the biographies Tolstoy's and Dostoevsky's wives published about their famous husbands, Hrabal produced his own biography from his wife's point of view. This novel guides us through his early years, from his upbringing to the wedding. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £11.95 | ||
| Hrabal, B. | Pirouettes on a postage stamp | An interview-novel by a famous writer. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £15.95 | ||
| Hrabal, B. | Too loud a solitude | Hanta may be a beer-soaked idiot, as his boss calls him, but he is an idiot with a difference - able to quote the Talmud, Hegel, Kand and Lao-tzu. His bizarre and unwitting education is the product of the job he has been doing for the last 35 years in a police state, compacting wastepaper and books into pulp… |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £7.99 | ||
| Hrabal, B. | Total Fears | Part of a collection called "Dopisy Dubence". At the beginning of 1989, Hrabal started to write again after a long silence - this time in the form of short, individual texts that he called his "lyrical reportage'; letters addressed to an American student called April. These letters cover the period of 1989 to 1992. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £8.50 | ||
| Klíma, I. | Love and Garbage | The narrator has temporarily abandoned his work-in-progress and exchanged his writer's pen for the orange vest of a Prague roadsweeper. As he works, he meditates on Czechoslovakia, Kafka, life, art and love, gradually admitting the impossibility of being at once an honest writer and an honest lover. |
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| Klíma, I. | Lovers for a Day | Drawn from author's two previously untranslated collections, these stories span Klíma's career, from exiled dissident to celebrated author and form a personal political history of Prague that is an acute and moving examination of our attempts to find freedom in love. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £7.99 | ||
| Klíma, I. | The Spirit of Prague | This collection of essays charts five critical decades in the history of Czechoslovakia by an author who witnessed it all; the horrors of Nazi occupation during the war, the Stalinist regimes of the 50s, the celebration of the Prague Spring, the despair of the Soviet invasion in 1968, the bravery of the members of Charter 77, the triumph of the Velvet Revolution in 1989 and the uncertainty following the formal division of his country. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £6.99 | ||
| Klíma, I. | The Ultimate Intimacy | On the day his mother dies, a beautiful stranger comes to hear Protestant pastor Daniel Vedra preach. Having lived in Prague during the Communist regime - under constant suspicion and interrogation - Daniel's life now seems easier and fuller than ever before. But as the relationship between the respected clergyman and another man's wife reintroduces Daniel to intimacy, it comes to threaten everything he has lived for… |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £6.99 | ||
| Klíma, I. | Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light | The story of Pavel, a middle-aged TV cameraman struggling to work within the boundaries set by the Communist regime, who dreams of one day making a film the authorities would never permit. However, following the Velvet Revolution of 1989, Pavel finds himself unprepared for the new world of supposedly unlimited freedoms… |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £6.99 | ||
| Klíma, L. | The Suffering of Prince Sternenhoch | In a series of journal entries, the book chronicles the descent into madness of Prince Sternenhoch, the German Empire's foremost aristocrat and the Kaiser's favourite. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £20.40 | ||
| Lustig, A. | Diamonds of the night | The stories in this collection take place in the Nazi concentration camps, on death transports and during the last turbulent days of WWII. The author focuses on exploration of the very essence of humanity. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £6.95 | ||
| Lustig, A. | Dita Saxova | A marvellously crafted novel about a young woman trying to cope with the memories of an extraordinary trauma while simultaneously exploring the pleasures and adventures life has to offer. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £10.00 | ||
| Mácha, K. H. | May | Considered the "pearl" of Czech poetry, this is a poem of seduction, revenge and patricide by the greatest Czech Romantic poet. Parallel Czech/English text. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £11.00 | ||
| Nezval, V. | Valerie and Her Week of Wonders | Bizarre erotic fantasy of a young girl's maturation into womanhood written at the height of Czech Surrealism. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £9.00 | ||
| Novák, L. | The transformations of Mr. Hadlíz | A combination of poetry, prose and art by one of the most remarkable and versatile Czech artists of the past forty years. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £8.50 | ||
| Olbracht, I. | The Sorrowful Eyes of Hannah Karajich | A deeply moving lyrical story of love and the pain of emancipation, set in the now all-but vanished world of Jewish, rural village life in Eastern Europe. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £9.99 | ||
| Poláček, K. | We were a handful | A famous comic book describing the adventures of five young boys in a provincial Czech town. Original title: "Bylo nás pět". |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £17.95 | ||
| Šimečka, M. | Letters from Prison | A selection of letters written to the author's family form a series of meditations on the nature of existence, and articulate a moral philosophy of decency in the face of adversity. Written by one of the most widely published Czechoslovak dissidents abroad. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £8.50 | ||
| Švankmajerová, E. | Baradla Cave | A novel by a Czech Surrealist exploring maternity and femininity while offering a satirical look at the over-zealous mother-state and consumer society. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £12.75 | ||
| Topol, J. | City Sister Silver | Stories of a young man trying to find his way in the messy landscape of post-Communist Czechoslovakia. |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £13.99 | ||
| Vančura, V. | Summer of caprice | A famous story about life of people - and mainly three aging men - in a lazy atmosphere of rainy spa town. Original title: "Rozmarné léto". |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £17.95 | ||
| Vopěnka, M. | Ballad of Descent | Two young men leave Prague on Christmas Day for the mountains, in search for their own identity: in their world, everyone has become alike, losing their individual values and becoming mindless products of a totalitarian regime… |
| Czech: Literature: Translations into English Price: £14.95 | ||
