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Chattertooth Eleven
ISBN: HB: 9788024615738, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2009
224 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 36 colour illus.
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In 1922, the same year that saw the establishment of the Czechoslovak Football Association, a former singer and cabaret director from Prague published a novel about soccer. Eighty-six year...
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£19,00
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Pirouettes on a Postage Stamp An Interview-Novel with Questions Asked and Answers Recorded by Laszlo Szigeti
ISBN: HB: 9788024614472, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2008
192 pp., 19x12.7 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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£15,00
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Everyday Spooks
ISBN: HB: 9788024614946, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2008
226 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 8 colour plates, 30 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Prague-born Karel Michal (1932-1984) lived a significant part of his adult life under Czechoslovakia's oppressive communist regime. Prevented from studying at the university as a young man...
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£19,00
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Youth Without Youth
ISBN: PB: 9780226204154, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
140 pp., 20x14 cm
Bucharest, 1938: while Hitler gains power in Germany, the Romanian police start arresting students they suspect of belonging to the Iron Guard. Meanwhile, a man who has spent his life studying languages, poetry, and history – a man who thought his li...
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£9,00
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Two Jews on a Train Stories from the Old Country and the New
ISBN: PB: 9780226052168, ISBN: HB: 9780226052144, University of Chicago Press, May 2001
144 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
"Two Jews were traveling on a train..". Many Eastern European jokes – and several of the charming and often hilarious conversations in this book – begin this way. From all regions of the world and from all walks of life, the characters are young and...
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£11,00
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£24,00
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