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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim

The Historian

by Elizabeth Kostova

THE HISTORIAN A Novel by Elizabeth Kostova. Stated 1st Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Little, Brown & Co. 2005.

Based on the restored text of Kafka's masterpiece, Mark Harman's acclaimed translation is "the closest to Kafka's original novel and intention that any translation could get . . . eminently readable" (Egon Schwartz, Washington University in St. Louis).

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

by Michael Chabon

Winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award, New York Library Book Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, PEN/Faulkner Award, Los Angeles Times Book AwardJoe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City.His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to... (more)

The Mercy Seller

by Brenda Rickman Vantrease

In the fifteenth century, with religious intolerance spreading like wildfire across Europe, English-born Anna Bookman and her grandfather, Finn, earn a living in Prague by illuminating precious books, including forbidden translations of the Bible. Finn subscribes to the heresy that people ought to be able to read the Word of God for themselves, without having to pay a priest for the privilege, but holding that... (more)

The JOKE (Definitive Version)

by Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim

All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after The Joke was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such implications into perspective in favor of valuing the book (and all Kundera 's work) as what it truly is: great, stirring... (more)

Travelers' Tales Prague and the Czech Republic: True Stories (Travelers' Tales Guides)

Travelers' Tales Prague and the Czech Republic: True Stories (Travelers' Tales Guides)

by David Farley

The Prague Orgy

by Philip Roth

In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by institutionalized oppression, that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the oppressed writers with whom he quickly becomes... (more)

The Diary of Petr Ginz

by Petr Ginz

Lost for sixty years in a Prague attic, this secret diary of a teenage prodigy killed at Auschwitz is an extraordinary literary discovery, an intimately candid, deeply affecting account of a childhood compromised by Nazi tyranny. As a fourteen-year old Jewish boy living in Prague in the early 1940s, Petr Ginz dutifully records the increasingly precarious texture of daily life. With a child’s keen eye for the... (more)

Prague: A Novel

by Arthur Phillips

A novel of startling scope and ambition, Prague depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortune. They harbor the vague suspicion that their counterparts in Prague have it better, but still they hope to find adventure, inspiration, a gold rush, or history in the making.

Golem (Caldecott Medal Book)

by David Wisniewski, Lee Salsbery

Retold from traditional sources and accompanied by David Wisniewski's unique cut-paper illustrations, Golem is a dramatic tale of supernatural forces invoked to save an oppressed people. It also offers a thought-provoking look at the consequences of unleashing power beyond human control. The afterword discusses the legend of the golem and its roots in the history of the Jews. A Caldecott Medal Book.

Seven Men At Daybreak

by Alan Burgess

The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

by Jaroslav Hasek, Jaroslev Hasek

Hasek's most important work was centered around the deeply funny story of a hapless Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army -- dismissed for incompetence only to be pressed into service by the Russians in World War I (where he is captured by his own troops). A mischief-maker, bohemian and drunk, Hasek demonstrated his wit in this classic novel of the Czech character and preposterous nature of war.

Me, myself & Prague

by Rachael Weiss

Shadows of Trinity

by Allen Goldenthal

In the year of the Lord 1588, the city of Prague was held in the grip of terror, victim to the murderous rampage of an inhuman monster created from the seeds of hatred and sown through religious intolerance and mortal greed. If the Empire was to survive, it had to place its hopes of salvation in the hands of three men: a heretical priest, a failed prophet, and a king without a kingdom. This is their story,... (more)

The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

Acclaimed graphic artist Peter Kuper presents a brilliant, darkly comic reimagining of Kafka’s classic tale of family, alienation, and a giant bug. Kuper’s electric drawings—which merge American cartooning with German expressionism—bring Kafka’s prose to vivid life, reviving the original story’s humor and poignancy in a way that will surprise and delight readers of Kafka and graphic novels alike. “A brilliant... (more)

The Good Soldier Svejk and his Fortunes in the World War

The Good Soldier Svejk and his Fortunes in the World War

by Jaroslav Hasek

Unabridged

Me, Myself and Prague

by Rachael Weiss

Prozess (The Trial)

by Franz Kafka, Willa Muir, Edwin Muir, George Steiner

Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism,... (more)

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by Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim

by Elizabeth Kostova

by Franz Kafka

by Michael Chabon

by Brenda Rickman Vantrease

by Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim

by David Farley

by Philip Roth

by Petr Ginz

by Arthur Phillips

by David Wisniewski, Lee Salsbery

by Alan Burgess

by Jaroslav Hasek, Jaroslev Hasek

by Rachael Weiss

by Allen Goldenthal

by Franz Kafka

by Jaroslav Hasek

by Rachael Weiss

by Franz Kafka, Willa Muir, Edwin Muir, George Steiner

by Gustav Meyrink