Ivan Klima

• Jan-1988
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Through four sensuous tales, a young man traces his harsh coming of age in Czechoslovakia, where faith in love, country and human kindness must hold out against increasing political disillusionment. His first affections move from a young kitchen girl...

• May-1991
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From an internationally acclaimed Czech writer comes a shrewd, humane, and poignant novel, set in Prague before the Velvet Revolution, whose perceptions about love, conscience, and betrayal cut to the bone of life in both totalitarian and democratic ...

• Jan-1992
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One of the last artistic expressions of life under communism, this novel captures the atmosphere in Prague between 1983 and 1987, where a dance could be broken up by the secret police, a traffic offence could lead to surveillance and where contraband...

• Apr-1993
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Judge On Trial is Ivan Kl-ma's epic novel about those who stayed in Prague after 1968. When middle-aged judge Adam Kindl is asked not only to try a double murder case but is also expected to find the accused guilty it is his own shattered faith in t...

• Dec-1994
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Describes life before, during and after Czechoslovakia's velvet revolution in 1989. Pavel is a middle-aged filmmaker, a not-quite dissident working uneasily within the boundaries set by the regime. He is paralyzed rather than liberated by the certain...

• Jan-1996
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A New York Times Notable Book: A Czech filmmaker survives Communism with dreams of artistic freedom in this “darkly powerful novel” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Pavel Fukova was once a promising, award-winning documentary filmmaker. But w...

• Jan-1999
• / Literary
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“A compelling [novel] . . . charged with quiet yet urgent wisdom” that explores love, adultery, and faith -- by the acclaimed Czech author of Love and Garbage (The Boston Globe).   Pastor Daniel Vedra cares for his family and ...

• Aug-1999
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This short story collection spanning the celebrated Czech author’s career is a “taxonomic survey of Eros . . . [by] a writer at the top of his form” (The Boston Globe).   In these stories that span an acclaimed career from t...

• Oct-2002
• / Literary
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A novel of one desperate woman’s hopes and desires set in contemporary Prague from “a literary gem who is too little appreciated in the West” (The Boston Globe).   Divorced, approaching fifty, and mother to a rebellious fifteen-year-old, K...

• May-2005
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The story of a doomed infatuation in which love is depicted as a sort of madness. A biologist in Prague lives only for his work until he comes under the spell of a woman whom he follows in an aimless existence, hopelessly compromising his family and ...

• May-2017
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Funny, shocking and absurd, tales of a dissident's life in Prague before the fall of communism, by one of the greatest Czech writers. Engagingly down-to-earth stories still relevant today."These are the best Czech short stories since the days of Kare...