Keresési eredmények

Dead is Balla's most recent book and marks a glorious return to the short story form. The stories are very topical dealing with the theme of masculinity, how that is expressed in different forms of aggressive nationalism, Slovak 'nativism' and delusional…

Balla is often described as "the Slovak Kafka" for his depictions of the absurd and the mundane. In the Name of the Father features a nameless narrator reflecting on his life, looking for someone else to blame for his failed relationship with…

Written and published in 1856, before Jules Verne published any of his novels. A young explorer sets off to map the stars in a balloon. The first ever SF novel written in Slovak.

Macha was the greatest figure of literary Czech High Romanticism. This Gothic novel reaches out to uncover identity - of mysterious strangers, of rapists and murderers, even of national origins - but at every point it resists truthful answers.

Four years planning and preparing, this new edition features 200 pages of Erben's poetry with illustrations by Míla Fürstová; an introduction by Professor Geoffrey Chew explaining how these poems inspired composers like Antonín Dvořák to compose his…

Blanka takes a summer job at a centre for people with physical disabilities in the French city of Marseille, where her encounter with their severe conditions ends badly. A deeply unsettling, visceral tale of a young woman unravelling, evolving from carer…

Andric and his girlfriend Laura have been seeing each other for a long time now but it isn't clear what each sees in the other. Self-absorbed, delusional or just a regular couple?'Big Love is primarily a critique of contemporary society, in which the…

Tales of desire, delirium and decadence from fin-de-siecle Prague. Short stories written by Julius Zeyer, Bozena Benesova, Milos Marten, Arthur Breisky, Jiri Karasek ze Lvovic, Frantisek Gellner and Richard Weiner

First published in 1853, these poems are among the best-loved and most widely read 19th century Czech classics. Kytice was inspired by Erben's love of Slavonic myth and the folklore surrounding such creatures as the Noonday Witch and the Water Goblin.…

A foul-mouthed Prague prostitute muses on her profession, aging and the nature of materialism as imagined in her own reality TV series. In an unvarnished mixture of vulgar and poetic language, the episodes combine the mundane with fetishism, violence…