Three stories, three ways of coming to terms with death in one of Olga Tokarczuk's most moving novels.

A literary, imaginative ode to the borderland, not only geographical, physical, but in the broadest sense of the word... One of the most famous and most widely commented novels by Olga Tokarczuk.

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Good Soldier Švejk is one of the most famous and popular characters not only in Czech but also in world literature. This is evidenced by the fact that, along with numerous editions at home and abroad, the work has become a classic in the true sense of the word, which is constantly read and quoted. Perhaps we could also talk about a part of our national character, whether in a good or...

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...

The War with the Newts develops over a long period of time as a collage of newspaper clippings and other brilliantly parodied records about the miraculous Newts who learn to speak, work, and behave like humans, only lacking the ability to think creatively. Behind the seemingly entertaining and witty satire on newspaper sensationalism, what Capek considered the greatest danger to human...