Ivan Klima - Böcker

The narrator of Love and Garbage has temporarily abandoned his work-in-progress - an essay on Kafka - and exchanged his writer's pen for the orange vest of a Prague road-sweeper. As he works, he meditates on Czechoslovakia, on Kafka, on life,...

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From an internationally acclaimed Czech writer comes a shrewd, humane, and poignant novel, set in Prague before the Velvet Revolution, whose perceptions about love, conscience, and betrayal cut to the bone of life in both totalitarian and democrat...

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Part thriller, part domestic tragedy, at once political and intensely personal, Ivan Kilma's epicly scaled new novel is an inquest into the compromises that turned even the best citizens of Czechoslovakia into accomplices of its late totalitarian ...

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Seven stories offer a satiric look at life in modern Czechoslovakia, including the black market, love, thievery, religion, and the need for secrecy.

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In the face of Europe's rising nationalism and intolerance, this timely anthology by Czech writers addresses a key issue for today. The courage of Czech writers is legendary. During the Cold War they kept their nation's conscience alive ...

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Judge On Trial is Ivan Kl-ma's epic novel about those who stayed in Prague after 1968. When middle-aged judge Adam Kindl is asked not only to try a double murder case but is also expected to find the accused guilty it is his own shattered faith in...

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The narrator of Love and Garbage has temporarily abandoned his work-in-progress - an essay on Kafka - and exchanged his writer's pen for the orange vest of a Prague road-sweeper. As he works, he meditates on Czechoslovakia, on Kafka, on life, on a...

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Ivan Klima witnessed the horrors of Nazi occupation during the war (he began to write in Terezin concentration camp), the Stalinist regimes of the 1950s, the celebrations of the Prague Spring (Klima was the editor of Czechoslovakia's most importan...

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One of the last artistic expressions of life under communism, this novel captures the atmosphere in Prague between 1983 and 1987, where a dance could be broken up by the secret police, a traffic offence could lead to surveillance and where contrab...

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On the day his mother dies, a beautiful stranger come to hear Protestant pastor Daniel Vedra preach. Having lived in Prague during the Communist regime- under constant suspicion and interrogation- Daniel's life now seems easier and fuller than eve...

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Kristyna är tandläkare och "har inte ens fem år kvar till den skamliga 50-årsåldern". Hon reflekterar över sitt liv medan hon dricker och röker alldeles för mycket. Hennes förhållande med den unge älskaren Honza gör henne alltmer osäker. Henne...

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Ivan Klíma guidar oss genom Prags brokiga historia, dess uppgångar och fall, det tjeckiska, tyska och judiska Prag, kulturen, arkitekturen, parkerna, människorna som levt och som lever där nu. Mitt älskade Prag är en litterär och personlig sk...

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För trettio år sedan skrev Ivan Klíma en radiopjäs med samma titel som denna bok. Handlingen var då förlagd till en totalitär stat där diktatorn fick för sig att han hade en ängel som rådgivare. Nu när muren sedan länge har fallit återvänder...

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