Best english books from Czech Republic

Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you speak English here are some English books from Czech Republic for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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A by Pavel Cech EN

Rating: 4 1 Vote

Country: Europe /

Czech Republic

Genre fiction

Recommended: 10 Jan 2023

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A Cup of Coffee with My Interrogator : The Prague Chronicles of Ludvík Vaculík by Ludvík Vaculík EN

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Country: Europe /

Czech Republic

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A collection of essays explores life in contemporary Czechoslovakia and discusses subjects including Gandhi, coffeehouses, and human rights

Genre fiction Biography

Tags: Male author

Recommended: 20 Feb 2022

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All This Belongs to Me by Petra Hulova, Alex Zucker EN

Rating: 4.5 2 Votes

Country: Europe /

Czech Republic

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Alta, Zaya, Nara, Oyuna and Dolgorna - a mother, three sisters, and the teenage daughter of one of the sisters - each tell their pieces of the family story, an epic fraught with secrets and betrayals, in All This Belongs to Me, the debut novel of Petra Hulova. All This Belongs to Me transports the reader from Mongolia's harsh, dusty steppe to the clamor and grime of the capital, Ulaanbantar; from nomanic herding and felt tents to brothels and prefab apartment blocks. With a filmic eye and a dead-on ear, Hulova vividly conveys the landscapes and lives of three generations of women. Two of the s... continue

Genre fiction Cultural

Tags: Set in MONGOLIA Female author

Recommended: 03 May 2022

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An Ordinary Life by Karel Capek EN

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Country: Europe /

Czech Republic

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Genre fiction

Recommended: 25 Oct 2022

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Gerta : A Novel by Kateřina Tučková EN

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Country: Europe /

Czech Republic

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The award-winning novel by Czech author Kateřina Tučková--her first to be translated into English--about the fate of one woman and the pursuit of forgiveness in a divided postwar world. 1945. Allied forces liberate Nazi-occupied Brno, Moravia. For Gerta Schnirch, daughter of a Czech mother and a German father aligned with Hitler, it's not deliverance; it's a sentence. She has been branded an enemy of the state. Caught in the changing tides of a war that shattered her family--and her innocence--Gerta must obey the official order: she, along with all ethnic Germans, is to be expelled from Czecho... continue

Genre fiction Historical

Tags: Set in CZECH REPUBLIC Female author

Recommended: 12 Sep 2022

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How I Came to Know Fish by Ota Pavel EN

Rating: 4.3 3 Votes

Country: Europe /

Czech Republic

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How I Came to Know Fish (1974) is Ota Pavel's magical memoir of his childhood in Czechoslovakia. Fishing with his father and his Uncle Prosek � the two finest fishermen in the world � he takes a peaceful pleasure from the rivers and ponds of his country. But when the Nazis invade, his father and two older brothers are sent to concentration camps and Pavel must steal their confiscated fish back from under the noses of the SS to feed his family. With tales of his father�s battle to provide for his family both in wealthy freedom and in terrifying persecution, this is one boy�s passionate and affe... continue

Genre fiction

Tags: Set in CZECH REPUBLIC Male author

Recommended: 05 Dec 2022

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I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal EN

Rating: 3.6 7 Votes

Country: Europe /

Czech Republic

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A comic, picaresque novel set against the backdrop of twentieth-century Czech history, about the rise and fall of an ambitious busboy in Prague.

Genre fiction Humor

Tags: Set in CZECH REPUBLIC Male author

Recommended: 05 Dec 2022

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Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street by Heda Margolius Kovály EN

Rating: 5 3 Votes

Country: Europe /

Czech Republic

Description:

Czech Holocaust memoirist, literary translator and political exile Heda Margolius Kovly turned her pen to fiction. Inspired by Chandler, Kovaly knit her own terrifying experiences in early 1950s Socialist Prague: her husband's imprisonment and wrongful execution and her own persecution at his disgrace, into a smart and evocative psychological thriller-cum-detective novel. Set in and around a cinema where a murder was recently committed, follows the unfolding of the investigation while telling the stories of the women who work there as ushers, each of whom is forced to support herself.

Genre fiction Mystery

Tags: Female author

Recommended: 21 Aug 2021

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Mendelssohn is on the Roof by Jiri Weil EN

Rating: 4.3 3 Votes

Country: Europe /

Czech Republic

Description:

SS Officer Juliyus Schlesinger is ordered to remove the statue of the Jewish composer Mendelssohn from the roof of the Prague Academy of Music before an official concert. Unsure which of the statues is Mendelssohn, he tells his men to remove the one with the biggest nose. Unfortunately, this is the statue of Wagner.

Genre fiction Adult Historical

Tags: Set in CZECH REPUBLIC Male author

Recommended: 16 Nov 2022

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