Contemporary fiction books from Czech Republic
Recommended contemporary fiction books (10)
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If you are into contemporary fiction here are some contemporary fiction books from Czech Republic for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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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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El maestro del Juicio Final by Leo Perutz ES
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
Viena, 1909. Cuando aparece el cadáver del célebre actor Bischoff, que aparentemente se ha suicidado, todas las sospechas recaen sobre un oficial del ejército enamorado de la mujer del difunto, el barón Von Yocsch, como inductor de la muerte, pese a que este clama desesperadamente su inocencia. La sucesión de nuevos suicidios cada vez más enigmáticos que se producen en los siguientes días llevan a una indagación detectivesca que se remontará varios siglos para descubrir el origen maléfico de tan macabra epidemia... Esta deslumbrante joya literaria, que fusiona la literatura policiaca y la fant... continue
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Life Is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera, Aaron Asher EN
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
The author initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made him a poet and accompanies him (figuratively) to his love bed and (literally) to his deathbed. A ridiculous and touching character, horrifying and totally innocent ("innocence with its bloody smile"!), Jaromil is at the same time a true poet. He's no creep, he's Rimbaud. Rimbaud e... continue
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No Saints Or Angels by Ivan Klíma EN
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
Klima takes us into the heart of contemporary Prague, where the Communist People's Militia of the Stalinist era marches headlong into the drug culture of the present. Kristyna is in her forties, the divorced mother of a rebellious fifteen-year-old daughter, Jana. She is beginning to love a man fifteen years her junior, but her joy is clouded by worry — Jana has been cutting school, and perhaps using heroin. Meanwhile Kristyna's mother has forced on her a huge box of personal papers left by her dead father, a tyrant whose Stalinist ideals she despised.
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Příspěvek k dějinám radosti by Radka Denemarková CS
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
The suicide of a wealthy elderly man soon proves to be improbable. The perceptive policeman tirelessly searches for the real reasons for the strange death, which will lead him to the mysterious house under Petrin. The mysteries and motives increase as the hours spent with the young widow increase. The main characters are three, perhaps four women, educated, bold and devoted to a higher justice, according to which the victim and the culprit lose their original duality. And the burning question echoes: how much more violence and wars await us before all this human misfortune finally becomes huma... continue
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting : A Novel by Milan Kundera EN
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.
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The Master of the Day of Judgment by Leo Perutz EN
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
Vienna, 1909. When the celebrated actor Eugen Bischoff is found dead in his garden pavilion, suspicion falls immediately on Baron von Yosch, a well-to-do army officer who was once the lover of the dead man’s wife. By all appearances—the door was locked from the inside when the two shots rang out—the actor took his own life, but someone, or something, drove him to it. The baron sets out to learn all he can about the actor’s death in order to clear his name. Meanwhile, within a few days, similar apparent suicides are reported. What started out as a straightforward quest to establish Bischoff’s l... continue
