Czech Republic

The Other City

Ajvaz, Michal ; Turner, Gerald

In this strange and lovely hymn to Prague, Michal Ajvaz repopulates the city of Kafka with ghosts, eccentrics, talking animals, and impossible statues, all lurking on the peripheries of a town so...

June 11, 2009

Paperback

Dalkey Archive Press

$14.95

Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948

Albright, Madeleine

Drawing on her own memory, her parents' written reflections, interviews with contemporaries, and newly-available documents, former US Secretary of State and New York Times...

February 19, 2013

Paperback

Harper Perennial

$16.99

Prague Stories

Bassett, Richard

A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology of stories set in Prague, by an international array of brilliant writers.

The Golden City of Prague has long been an intellectual center of the...

October 20, 2020

Hardcover

Everyman's Library

416 Pages

$17.00

Prague in Black and Gold

Demetz, Peter

Prague is at the core of everything both wonderful and terrible in Western history, but few people truly understand this city's unique culture. In Prague in Black and Gold, Peter Demetz...

March 18, 1998

Paperback

Hill & Wang

$29.00

The Prague Cemetery

Eco, Umberto ; Dixon, Richard

The Prague Cemetery is the #1 international bestseller from the award-winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco....

September 4, 2012

Paperback

Harpervia

464 Pages

$18.99

The Last Palace: Europes Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House

Eisen, Norman

A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest houses--and the lives of its occupants

When...

September 3, 2019

Paperback

Crown Publishing Group (NY)

$18.00

Movement

Hlová, Petra

In this utopia, the feminist Movement has been successful and women rule the world. Men are trained at reeducation facilities to accept the new normal in this futuristic satire challenging our...

October 12, 2021

Paperback

World Editions

$16.99

Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990

Havel, Vaclav

The twenty-five years' worth of essays, letters, interviews and reportage colected in this volume portay Vaclav Havel's evolution from a modestly known playwright with the courage to criticize a...

June 2, 1992

Paperback

Vintage

432 Pages

$16.95

Hanta has been compacting trash for thirty-five years. Every evening he resues books from the jaws of his hydraulic press, carries them home, and fills his house with them. Hanta may be an idiot, as...

April 27, 1992

Paperback

Harpervia

$12.99

I Served the King of England

Hrabal, Bohumil ; Wilson, Paul

First published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, I Served the King of England is an extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel (The New York...

May 31, 2007

Paperback

New Directions Publishing Corporation

241 Pages

$15.95