Fiction

One of the most successful Czech prose books of the 60s, Everyday Spooks by Karel Michal has become famous by original satire aimed at everyday reality in the communist Czechoslovakia of the 50s and 60s.
Karolinum, Prague 2008, 150 x 210 mm, 226 str., ISBN 978-80-246-1494-6

The story of the young Karl Rossmann, a sixteen-year-old, whom his parents send to the New World from his Bohemian homeland, was indeed laid out without end. Of his three novels, this was the one on which the author spent the most time over the longest period of time, but like The Trial and The Castle it remained an unfinished torso.
Vitalis, Prague 2010, 312 pages, ISBN 978-80-7253-316-9

Translation of the novel - interview Pirouettes on a Postage Stamp is a peculiar introduction to the world and works of Bohumil Hrabal for English speaking readers.
Karolinum, Prague 2008, 130 x 200 mm, 192 pages, ISBN 978-80-246-1447-2

Vančura's Summer of Caprice is often said to be untranslatable. It is both because of the stylized language and the development of the context in which the book moved for the past eighty years.
Karolinum, Prague 2006, 135 x 185 mm, 208 pages, ISBN 80-246-1195-3

A classic short story by Eduard Bass from 1922, now in an English translation.
Karolinum, Prague 2009, 135 x 190 mm, 250 pages, ISBN 978-80-246-1573-8

A charming story about the adventures of five mischievous boys from a small Czech town, written in the form of a diary of a merchant's son Petr Bajza.
Karolinum, Prague 2007, 130 x 185 mm, 400 pages, ISBN 978-80-246-1449-6

Providing important background and insight into The Good Soldier Schweik, this collection by a writer some call the Bolshevik Mark Twain is nevertheless much more than a tool for understanding his better-known novel; it is a significant work in its own right.
Karolinum, Prague 2016, 130 x 190 mm, 110 pages, ISBN: 978-80-246-3287-2