Czech Fiction

A novel of irreconcilable loves and infidelities, which embraces all aspects of human existence, and addresses the natur ...

Set in the Central Europe of old, this anti-war novel features a simple soldier whose determination to survive brings in ...

A novel, divided into seven parts and exploring immortality

This volume contains all of Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches to longer tales. Together the ...

The only available collection that brings together all of Kafka's stories--those published during his lifetime and those ...

In a work written while he was president of Czechoslovakia, Havel offers profound reflections upon the nature and practi ...

and Rabelais with his heirs - the great novelists.In the light of their wisdom this book examines some of the great situ ...

From the internationally acclaimed Czech writer Karel Capek comes this beautifully written and marvelously apt account o ...

A remarkable new novel by one of the most exciting writers in Europe, Milos Urban, translated from the Czech by Robert R ...

Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, ...

A novel by the author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being".

"The Cowards (1958)" is Josef Skvorecky's blackly comic tale of post-war politics that was immediately banned on publica ...

Fifteen-year-old Hanka Kaudersova has ginger hair and clear, green eyes. When her family is deported to Auschwitz, her m ...