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Mr Kafka
Newly discovered stories by the greatest Czech writer of the twentieth century Enter the gas-lit streets of post-war Prague, the steelworks run by singed men, the covered market that smells...
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
A European classic of comic literature This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence. Saints and sinners, emperors and...
All My Cats
A gem of a book about the aggravations and great joys of cats from a literary master In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first...
Closely Watched Trains
A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers For gauche young apprentice Milos Hrma, life at the small...
Closely Watched Trains
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Closely Watched Trains tells the story of Milos Hrma, a young railroad apprentice coming of age in wartime Czechoslovakia. Milos is...