The Republic on the eve of partitions, a multicultural, multiethnic land closer to Istanbul than Paris and a man from nowhere who will change the fate of many thousands of people. A great journey from peasant cottages through magnate courts to imperial chambers.

This is a multi-vector novel, which the author himself defines as a ‘horror comedy’. This book brings together scenes of visions, family chronicles, love affairs, humorous gags and mystical insights written in a somewhat ironic key. At the center of the novel is the conflict between culture and the state in Russia. The state personifies a collective existential portrait of the ruler of...

A short, nostalgic novel by Alexander Ilichevsky, one of the major contemporary authors writing in Russian, winner of the Russian Booker and Big Book Prizes. It is a journey into the past undertaken by several old friends, rafting on the smooth surface of a wide river. During this short but emotionally intense journey unhealed resentments resurface and skeletons reappear from closets. The...

Maria Makeeva, a renowned journalist, editor-in-chief of two independent TV channels, and recipient of several journalism awards, is accustomed to dealing with news, with verified and precise stories. Perhaps that is why the phantasmagoria she created ‘shines through’ with realistic, recognizable allusions, allowing the reader to relate to the characters. In her book, which starts and unfolds...

On New Year's Eve, Andrea, Jirka, Dáša, Bert, Markéta and Pavel make a major New Year's resolution. But none of them tell anyone what it is. They all want to change their lives and hope that they will succeed in the new year. They might, because they will have enough time to do it. In addition to the morning and evening hours of working days, they have fifty-two weekends, ten public holidays...

An unexpectedly chilling novel from the author of the bestsellers Hana, Tiché roky, Listopád. They call her Cácora and it seems that she was born by accident and as if on purpose. Her father disappeared somewhere during the floods, her mother runs away from responsibility to lovers and alcohol - and the little girl is left hanging on the neck of her unfriendly grandmother, who manages the...

Have you ever asked yourself what your life would have been like if everything had turned out differently in November 1989? What would our fates have been like if communism had not ended and we had remained behind the Iron Curtain separating us from the world and from each other? One of the most successful Czech writers, Alena Mornštajnová, surprises again. Her new novel is a dramatic story...

Reality can be unbelievable and real events sometimes seem improbable. Aleš would not have believed until he was thirty-two that his life would look like this. He imagined it completely differently. One April afternoon in 2001, he fell in love with a woman who showered him with so much love that it would have defeated an ox. This novel tells the story of everything he had to overcome to...

From the royal trip to the Netherlands, Marie III. Kostková will bring back not only experiences and a photo with Her Majesty Queen Beatrix, but also a love affair, which will only be ‘silvered’ at the very end of the new sequel; Helenka Vondrácková will also appear at the castle, among others. However, there will be more love affairs on Kostka, and most of them will be recorded by a film...

František Antonín Count Kostka of Kostka is a descendant of a noble family living in New York. After the fall of the communist regime, he returns to Bohemia with his American wife Vivien and daughter Marie (III.) to take over the family seat. In addition to the castle, the count's family ‘inherits’ the staff: a reactionary castellan, a hypochondriac gardener and a cook who likes to click and...

In its simplest form, Valerian Pidmohylny’s novel 'The City' is the story of an ambitious young man who moves from the village to Kyiv and builds a new life there. He is often compared to the hero of Maupassant’s 'A Dear Friend' and the self-confident and unscrupulous conquerors of social heights from Balzac’s stories. However, for Pidmohylny, it is not just a career story. He places the...

In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop.