One day and one night. Five stories at the end of summer. On the last day of summer, Hana, a young successful diplomat, returns to Prague from Lisbon, determined that she wants to experience something more in her life and therefore has to change everything. Petr the tram, on the other hand, is resigned. He drives route 22, and tries to find his fateful girl. Wayne, an American lawyer, has a...

able story. The author, who was only discovered in her eighties, became one of the most successful and translated Czech writers almost overnight. He won the State Prize for Literature for his short story collection Želary, and a highly successful film was made based on Joz Hanula's novella, which was nominated for an Oscar. But who is Kveta Legátová (real name Vera Hofmanová)? What were her...

The prose Prisoner No. 1260 was written by Jaromír Šavrda between September and November 1982 during his second imprisonment in Ostrava (1982-84). In the book, he describes the conditions in communist criminals, but also the various fates of muggles or absurd stories that could only be experienced in a country where party idiots ruled together with the secret police. The book was first...

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...

The plot of Hrabal's novel takes place during World War II, when human qualities manifest themselves just as they do in times of deep peace, only they are more visible in the confrontation with the events of war. The author tells the story of a young student, Miloš Hrma, who, despite his love problems, reaches the threshold of manhood at a small railway station...

The theme of Hrabal's famous prose is the life of Jan Dítet, a waiter, later a hotelier and finally a traveler during a time of political upheaval. It is a book about Czechness, the greatness and ugliness within us, which was made into a film by Jirí Menzel in 2006.

A worker at a waste paper collection center, Hanta, has worked at a printing press for thirty-five years. He rescues rare books from piles of paper, reads them, and is thus 'educated against his will.' The novella Too Noisy Solitude is Hanta’s inner monologue with many recurring motifs. The reader gets to know Hanta’s first love, Mancinka, and the gypsy Ilonka, who disappeared in a...

Zdenek Sverák's kind humor and outlook on life are always a touch of soul. This is no different in the brand new stories published on the occasion of the author's significant anniversary. As a bonus, the book contains a touching poem with an unexpected message, and in one story, only the readers themselves can reveal the perpetrator of the crime.

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...