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Summer of Caprice

Vancura Vladislav

ISBN: PB: 9788024632896, ISBN: HB: 9788024611952, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2017
204 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 8 colour plates, 90 line drawings

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Summer of Caprice", a captivating comic novel first published in 1926, is a classic of Czech literature, yet it is little known elsewhere. Commonly considered untranslatable due to the co...

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We Were a Handful

Polacek Karel

ISBN: PB: 9788024632858, ISBN: HB: 9788024614496, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2017
400 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! A favorite work of Czech humor, "We Were a Handful" depicts the adventures of five boys from a small Czech town through the diary of Petr Bajza, the grocer's son. Written by Karel Polacek...

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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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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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Bad Lands A Novel

Hall Oakley

ISBN: PB: 9780226412610, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map

It's 1883 in Johnson County, in the old Dakota Territory – a rugged, wide-open landscape of rolling, red earth, prairie, and cattle as far as the eye can see. But the land is closing, the "Beef Bonanza" is ending, and the free-range cattlemen are stu...

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Norte A Novel

Paz Soldan Edmundo

ISBN: PB: 9780226207209, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
312 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Three unconnected people travel north, each passing in isolation over one of the most troubled and controversial dividing lines in the world: the Mexico-US border. But in a melee of language and blood, their stories and the stories of those they mee...

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Shadows of Your Black Memory

Ndongo Donato

ISBN: PB: 9780997228700, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, October 2016
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Set during the last years of Spanish rule in Equatorial Guinea, "Shadows of Your Black Memory" presents the voice of a young African man reflecting on his childhood. Through the idealistic eyes of the nameless protagonist, Donato Ndongo portrays the...

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