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, ... Zobraziť viac
Written and published in 1856, before Jules Verne published any of his novels. A young explorer sets off to map the stars in a balloon... Zobraziť viac
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.... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
Macha was the greatest figure of literary Czech High Romanticism. This Gothic novel reaches out to uncover identity - of mysterious strangers, of rapists and murderers, even of national origins... Zobraziť viac
Five short stories forming a flowing, continuous narrative with the individual stories linked by place and tone in a choir of distinct voices. Zobraziť viac
Dead is Balla's most recent book and marks a glorious return to the short story form. The stories are very topical dealing with the theme of masculinity, how that is expressed in different forms of aggressive nationalism, Slovak 'nativism' and ... Zobraziť viac
In this story, two ideas coincide: the brain of the genius and trickster apparently dies at the Battle of Königgrätz in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. However, he has not died and instead is able to procure a replacement for his injured brain, the ... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
Tales of desire, delirium and decadence from fin-de-siecle Prague. Short stories written by Julius Zeyer, Bozena Benesova, Milos Marten... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
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? ... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
A grandmother passes on her wisdom to her neighbours, friends and grandchildren in rural Bohemia. A fine example of 19C proto-feminist fiction... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
