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  Daniela Hodrová A Kingdom of Souls

  Daniela Hodrova shares her unique perception of Prague, through playful poetic prose, and by imaginatively blending historical and cultural motifs with autobiographical moments. A Kingdom of Souls is the first volume of this author's literary journey...

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  Geoffey Chew And My Head Exploded

  Tales of desire, delirium and decadence from fin-de-siecle Prague. Short stories written by Julius Zeyer, Bozena Benesova, Milos Marten...

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  Ivana Dobrakovová Bellevue

  Blanka takes a summer job at a centre for people with physical disabilities in the French city of Marseille, where her encounter with their severe conditions ends badly. A deeply unsettling, visceral tale of a young woman unravelling, ...

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  Balla Big Love

  Andric and his girlfriend Laura have been seeing each other for a long time now but it isn't clear what each sees in the other. Self-absorbed, delusional or just a regular couple? ...

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  Antonín Bajaja Burying the Season

  An affectionate, multi-layered account of small town life in central Europe beginning in the 1930s and ending in the early 21st century. Adapting scenes from Fellini's Amarcord, Bajaja's meandering narrative weaves humor, tragedy...

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  Jan Křesadlo Gravelarks

  Set in Stalinist-era Central Europe, GraveLarks is a triumphant intellectual thriller navigating the fragile ambiguity between sado-masochism, black humor, political satire, murder, and hope. Zderad, a noble misfit, investigates...

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  Balla In the Name of the Father and Other Stories EN

  An award-winning Slovak novella and three additional short stories. This collection, by an author described as the Slovak Kafka, shares a unique dark humor, along with a commitment to satire and truth. The novella features a nameless narrator reflecting on his life, looking for someone else to blame for his failed relationship with his parents and two sons, his serial adultery, the breakup of his marriage and his…

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  Daniela Hodrová Prague, I See a City...

  Prague, I see a city... is a novel of quest, in which the heroine abandons the material world of everyday society and linear history, perceiving it as false, temporary and distracting, and journeys in search of her true identity...

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  Jiří Pehe Three Faces of an Angel EN

  It strikes me that Josef Brehme lived in an epoch when time still proceeded in a straight line from the past to the future, muses his grandson, the talented, handsome and cynical Alex Brehme in his diary in late 2001. Three Faces of an Angel is a novel about the twentieth century that begins when time was linear and ended when the notion of progress was less well defined. The Brehmes’ story guides the reader through…

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  Petra Hůlová Three Plastic Rooms

  A foul-mouthed Prague prostitute muses on her profession, aging and the nature of materialism as imagined in her own reality TV series. In an unvarnished mixture of vulgar and poetic language, the episodes combine the mundane with fetishism...