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Lamentation for 77,297 Victims
ISBN: PB: 9788024645339, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2020
85 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Smoke from nearby factories shrouds a countryside as flat as a table, a countryside stretching off to infinity. Covering it are the ashes of millions of dead. Scattered throughout are fin...
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£10,00
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Shop on Main Street
ISBN: PB: 9788024640228, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
150 pp., 19x12.7 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Written by a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, "The Shop on Main Street" is the story that inspired the highly successful Academy Award-winning Czechoslovak film of the same title. Looking...
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Why I Write? The Early Prose from 1945 to 1952
ISBN: HB: 9788024642680, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
300 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 20 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This collection of the earliest prose by one of literature's greatest stylists captures, as scholar Arnault Marechal put it, "the moment when Hrabal discovered the magic of writing". Taken...
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Czech Dreambook
ISBN: PB: 9788024638522, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
450 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 25 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! It's 1979 in Communist Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing period known as normalization, and Ludvik Vaculik has writer's block. It has been nearly a decade since he wrote his powe...
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£21,00
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Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals A Humorous – Insofar as That Is Possible – Novella from the Ghetto
ISBN: HB: 9788024636993, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2018
212 pp., 19x14 cm, 30 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Compassion, levity, and laughter can be found in the darkest of places – and even in the smallest of creatures. Set in 1943 Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, J. R. Pick's novella "Society for...
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£16,50
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Pied Piper
ISBN: PB: 9788024634401, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
125 pp., 19x12.7 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! For "The Pied Piper", Czech writer Viktor Dyk found his muse in the much retold medieval Saxon legend of the villainous, pipe-playing rat-catcher. Dyk uses the tale as a loose frame for hi...
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£8,99
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Summer of Caprice
ISBN: PB: 9788024632896, ISBN: HB: 9788024611952, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2017
204 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 8 colour plates, 90 line drawings
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Summer of Caprice", a captivating comic novel first published in 1926, is a classic of Czech literature, yet it is little known elsewhere. Commonly considered untranslatable due to the co...
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£22,50
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We Were a Handful
ISBN: PB: 9788024632858, ISBN: HB: 9788024614496, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2017
400 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! A favorite work of Czech humor, "We Were a Handful" depicts the adventures of five boys from a small Czech town through the diary of Petr Bajza, the grocer's son. Written by Karel Polacek...
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Behind the Lines Bugulma and Other Tales
ISBN: PB: 9788024632872, ISBN: HB: 9788024620138, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, December 2016
224 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 38 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Jaroslav Hasek is a Czech writer most famous for his wickedly funny, widely read yet incomplete novel "The Good Soldier Schweik", a series of absurdist vignettes about a recalcitrant WWI s...
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£19,00
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God's Rainbow
ISBN: HB: 9788024632919, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
140 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 15 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This is a book about collective guilt, individual fate, and repentance, a tale that explores how we can come to be responsible for crimes we neither directly commit nor have the power to p...
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