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Behind the Lines Bugulma and Other Tales

Hasek Jaroslav

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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The German List

Blumenberg

Lewitscharoff Sibylle

ISBN: HB: 9780857423696, Seagull Books, December 2016
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

One night, German philosopher Hans Blumenberg returns to his study to find a shocking sight – a lion lying on the floor as if it's the most natural thing in the world. The lion stretches comfortably on the Turkmen rug, eyes resting on Blumenberg. The...

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Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection

Poe Edgar Allan

ISBN: HB: 9781435154469, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, December 2016
1040 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, colour illus.

Edgar Allan Poe is credited with having pioneered the short story, having perfected the tale of psychological horror, and having revolutionised modern poetics.The entirety of Poe's body of imaginative work encompasses detective tales, satires, fables...

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Complete Works of William Shakespeare Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection

Shakespeare William

ISBN: HB: 9781435154476, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, December 2016
1280 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, colour illus.

This new edition collects all 37 of Shakespeare's comedies, tragedies and historical plays in a collectible edition. The volume also features Shakespeare's complete poetry, including the sonnets. With this beautiful edition, you can enjoy Shakespeare...

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God's Rainbow

Durych Jaroslav

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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Cremator

Fuks Ladislav

ISBN: PB: 9788024632902, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
180 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "The devil's neatest trick is to persuade us that he doesn't exist" – Giovanni Papini. It is a maxim that both rings true in our contemporary world and pervades this tragicomic novel of an...

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Saturnin

Jirotka Zdenek

ISBN: PB: 9788024632889, ISBN: HB: 9788024606835, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
263 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a best seller, its gentle satire offering an unexpected – if temporary – reprieve from the grim reality of the German occupation....

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Rambling On An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab

Hrabal Bohumil

ISBN: PB: 9788024632865, ISBN: HB: 9788024623160, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
230 pp., 19x14 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. From that point...

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Seven Days in August

Bildoen Brit

ISBN: HB: 9780857423825, Seagull Books, November 2016
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

A few years after the deadly 2011 terror attack in Norway's Utoya Island, Otto and Sofie are attempting to put the pieces of their life back together without their beloved daughter, who was murdered alongside countless other youths on one of the wors...

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Shanghai Intrigue

Koyama Michael S.

ISBN: HB: 9780857423832, Seagull Books, November 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

When a Chinese American intelligence officer at the US Embassy in Beijing intercepts complex coded messages, the race is on to decipher their meaning. When she finally succeeds in decoding them, the messages seem to indicate a targeted assault on the...

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