Books from Czech Republic
85 popular czech books
Travel the world without leaving your chair.
The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Czech Republic.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. In 1961, Joy Adamson first introduced to the world the story of her life alongside Elsa the lioness, whom she had rescued as an orphaned cub, and raised at her home in Kenya. But as Elsa had been born free, Joy made the heartbreaking decision that she must be returned to the wil... continue
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Carta al padre by Franz Kafka ES
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
Quizás la muestra más representativa de los escritos personales de Kafka, donde vida y literatura se confunden, sea esta Carta al padre, que es una carta privada, confidencial, conmovedora, pero es también, al mismo tiempo, una obra literaria perfecta.
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Cartea râsului şi a uitării by Milan Kundera RO
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
„Această carte este în totalitatea ei un roman în formă de variaţiuni. În succesiunea lor, fiecare capitol constituie o etapă diferită a unei călătorii ce duce în interiorul unei teme, în interiorul unei idei, în interiorul unei situaţii unice, a cărei înţelegere se pierde pentru mine în nemărginire. E un roman despre Tamina şi, din clipa în care Tamina părăseşte scena, devine un roman pentru Tamina.Ea este personajul principal şi principalul ascultător, toate celelalte întâmplări fiind o variaţiune a propriei sale poveşti... continue
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Ceilings by Zuzana Brabcová EN
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
Awarded the Magnesia Litera Prose Book of the Year in 2013, Ceilings is a polyphonic novel kin to the work of Leonora Carrington and Unica Zürn. Taking place in a mental hospital in Prague where the "narrator" is undergoing detox treatment for substance abuse, the borders blur between inner experience and the outer world, between reality and dream. As the walls and ceilings hemming in the desire for freedom fantastically break open as if into the unknown and gender fluidly shifts between brother and sister, who are one and the same, Brabcová's flights of imagination portray how difficult it is... continue
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Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabal EN
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers For twenty-two-year-old Milos, bumbling apprentice at a sleepy Czech railway station, life is full of worries: his burdensome virginity, his love for the pretty conductor Masha, the scandalous goings-on in the station master's office. Beside them, the part he will come to play against the occupying Germans seems a simple affair, in Bohumil Hrabal's touching, absurd masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism. Closely Watched Trains, which became the award-winning Jiri Menzel ... continue
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Cutting it Short ; and The Little Town where Time Stood Still by Bohumil Hrabal EN
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
From the flamboyant and unpredictable Maryska, who scandalises the town when she cuts short her golden tresses, to the eccentric Uncle Pepin, who always has to have a ready supply of furniture to smash when he's angry, Bohumil Hrabal creates a range of enchanting and memorable characters - confirming his status as one of Europe's greatest writers.
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Die kleine Hexe by Otfried Preussler EN
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
Warum soll eine gute Hexe nicht auch auf den Blocksberg d¿rfen? Ab 6 Die kleine Hexe ist leider erst 127 Jahre alt und wird deshalb von den gro¿n Hexen nicht f¿r voll genommen. Da sie nun keine gro¿ Hexe ist, will sie wenigstens eine gute sein. Mit diesem Entschluss beginnt ein aufregender Wirbel. Autorenportr¿ Otfried Preu¿er wurde am 20. Oktober 1923 in Reichenberg/B¿hmen geboren. Nach dem Krieg und f¿nf Jahren hinter sowjetischem Stacheldraht kam er nach Oberbayern. Er lebt mit seiner Familie in der N¿ von Rosenheim, war bis 1970 Volksschullehrer und widmet sich seither ausschlie¿ich seiner... continue
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Die Nackten by Iva Procházková DE
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
Filip liebt Sylva, doch die ist mit der Suche nach Niklas beschäftigt. Niklas liebt Evita, die aber wiederum ihren Dealer sucht. Da trifft Sylva bei ihrer Suche mitten in der Grossstadt einen verletzten Coyoten. Ab 14.