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Darkness Casts No Shadow
Darkness Casts No Shadow is one of Czech writer Arnost Lustig’s earliest and most autobiographical novels. Originally published in 1958 in the collection Diamonds of the Night – though at over 170...
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The Cremator
Ladislav Fuks’ novel The Cremator (literally ‘The incinerator of corpses’) was originally published in 1967, and adapted in 1969 into a film by Juraj Herz. Only in 2016 was the novel finally...
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Apocryphal Stories
Karel Capek is largely known as the author of War with the Newts and for popularising the term ‘robot’, but his career as a writer was extensive with numerous plays, novels, travel writing and...
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My Golden Trades
Ivan Klima’s My Golden Trades was published (and translated by Paul Wilson) in 1992, three years after the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia. At the time Klima was already getting asked what...
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The Cowards
The Cowards is one of the first novels Josef Skvorecky wrote, between 1948 and 1949, though it was not published until 1958 when it appeared both in Czech and in an English translation by Jeanne...
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