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Product Description: In his intimate autobiography, spanning six decades that included war, totalitarianism, censorship, and the fight for democracy, acclaimed Czech writer Ivan Klíma reflects back on his remarkable life and this critical period of twentieth-century history...read more
By Craig Cravens (trans) and Ivan Klima

Hardcover:

9780802121707 | Grove Pr, October 22, 2013, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: In his intimate autobiography, spanning six decades that included war, totalitarianism, censorship, and the fight for democracy, acclaimed Czech writer Ivan Klíma reflects back on his remarkable life and this critical period of twentieth-century history.

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Product Description: Czech writer Vitezslav Nezval (1900-58) was one of the leading Surrealist poets of the 20th century. Prague with Fingers of Rain is his classic 1936 collection in which Prague's many-sided life-its glamorous history, motley weather, diverse population- becomes symbolic of what is contradictory and paradoxical in life itself...read more
By Ivan Klima (foreword by), Vitezslav Nezval and Ewald Osers (trans)

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9781852248161, titled "Prague With Fingers of Rain: Selected Poems" | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, July 15, 2009, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Czech writer Vitezslav Nezval (1900-58) was one of the leading Surrealist poets of the 20th century.

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Product Description: When he first visited the Czech Republic in the 1990s, the rising photographer Matthew Monteith was taken by the details of ordinary life in this country in transition. Captivated by the ineffable--a mood, a sense of place--he made repeated visits, and from 2001-2003 traveled throughout the country with his camera, in hopes of creating a contemporary allegory that would reflect the ideals he had observed in old postcards and in Czech photography from the 1920s and 30s...read more
By Ivan Klima (introduced by) and Matthew Monteith (photographer)

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9781597110327 | Aperture, May 1, 2007, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: When he first visited the Czech Republic in the 1990s, the rising photographer Matthew Monteith was taken by the details of ordinary life in this country in transition.

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Product Description: This guide to Prague and the Czech Republic features essays and travel narratives that add depth to....
By David Farley (editor), Ivan Klima (foreword by) and Jessie Sholl (editor)

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9781932361339 | Travelers'' Tales Inc, March 12, 2006, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This guide to Prague and the Czech Republic features essays and travel narratives that add depth to.

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After the collapse of the repressive Czech regime, Pavel finds it disturbingly difficult to make the documentary film that had always been his dream. Reprint.
By Ivan Klima and Paul Wilson (trans)

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9780802115744 | Grove Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Pavel, a Czech television cameraman used to working in a totalitarian regime, longs to make a documentary about his dark past, but must postpone this project after the collapse of Communism brings about a new and unfamiliar age of unlimited freedom

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9780802142436 | Rep tra edition (Grove Pr, February 12, 2006), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: After the collapse of the repressive Czech regime, Pavel finds it disturbingly difficult to make the documentary film that had always been his dream.
9780312140922 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, March 1, 1996), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: After the collapse of the repressive Czech regime, Pavel finds it disturbingly difficult to make the documentary film that had always been his dream

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A Czechoslovakian writer recreates the last days under communism and the jobs assigned to him by the state--archaeologist, surveyor's assistant, train engineer--when he refused to cooperate with the Czech communist government

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9780684197272 | Scribner, October 1, 1994, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A Czechoslovakian writer recreates the last days under communism and the jobs assigned to him by the state--archaeologist, surveyor's assistant, train engineer--when he refused to cooperate with the Czech communist government

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9781862071032 | Rep sub edition (Granta Books, January 1, 2004), cover price $15.95

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Product Description: Contemporary Czech novelist and playwright Ivan Klíma has transformed his lifelong admiration for the work of the great Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek into an extended personal essay on Capek's life and work. Written with letters and other material not available to earlier biographers and critics, Klíma reflects on the effects of the author’s personal relationships and scrutinizes his artistic and philosophical influences...read more
By Norma Comrada (trans) and Ivan Klima

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9780945774532 | 1 edition (Catbird Pr, July 1, 2002), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Contemporary Czech novelist and playwright Ivan Klíma has transformed his lifelong admiration for the work of the great Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek into an extended personal essay on Capek's life and work.

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The great Czech writer pens a new novel set in Prague and centered around Kristyna, a divorced mother trying to raise her rebellious teenage daughter Jana. Reprint.
By Ivan Klima and Gerald Turner (trans)

Hardcover:

9780802116956 | Grove Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The great Czech writer pens a new novel set in Prague and centered around Kristyna, a divorced mother trying to raise her rebellious teenage daughter Jana.

Paperback:

9780802139238 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, October 1, 2002), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: The great Czech writer pens a new novel set in Prague and centered around Kristyna, a divorced mother trying to raise her rebellious teenage daughter Jana.

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A collection of short stories by the author of Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light includes the tale of a doctor who has escaped to London and returns to communist Czechoslovakia to be with a woman only to discover too late that he barely knows her and the story of a young woman begins an affair with an older man. Reprint. (view table of contents)
By Ivan Klima and Gerald Turner (trans)

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9780802137470 | Grove Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A collection of short stories by the author of Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light includes the tale of a doctor who has escaped to London and returns to communist Czechoslovakia to be with a woman only to discover too late that he barely knows her and the story of a young woman begins an affair with an older man.

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Essays exploring the nature of modern society discuss rationality and irrationality, the artificial world, modern idols, mass media, and movements for change.
By Ivan Klima and Gerry Turner (trans)

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9780500281581 | Thames & Hudson, November 1, 1999, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Essays exploring the nature of modern society discuss rationality and irrationality, the artificial world, modern idols, mass media, and movements for change.

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A collection of short stories by the author of Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light includes the tale of a doctor who has escaped to London and returns to communist Czechoslovakia to be with a woman only to discover too late that he barely knows her and the story of a young woman begins an affair with an older man. (view table of contents)
By Ivan Klima and Gerald Turner (trans)

Hardcover:

9780802116512 | Grove Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of stories spanning thirty years of the Eastern European author's career

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When a beautiful married woman walks into Pastor Daniel Vedra's life and conjures up memories of his first wife, Jitka, he struggles with the chaos the affair creates for his wife, his children, his vocation, and his future

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9780802116253 | Grove Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: When a beautiful married woman walks into Pastor Daniel Vedra's life and conjures up memories of his first wife, Jitka, he struggles with the chaos the affair creates for his wife, his children, his vocation, and his future

Paperback:

9780802136015 | Grove Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: When a beautiful married woman walks into Pastor Daniel Vedra's life and conjures up memories of his first wife, Jitka, he struggles with the chaos the affair creates for his wife, his children, his vocation, and his future
9781862070691 | Granta Books, November 11, 1997, cover price $21.40

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A collection of essays by an eminent Czechoslovakian novelist explores the turbulent history of Prague over the past fifty years, the author's childhood experience in a concentration camp, the work of Franz Kafka, and the meaning of hope. Original. IP.
By Ivan Klima and Paul Wilson (trans)

Paperback:

9780964561120 | Granta Books, September 1, 1995, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays by an eminent Czechoslovakian novelist explores the turbulent history of Prague over the past fifty years, the author's childhood experience in a concentration camp, the work of Franz Kafka, and the meaning of hope.

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Product Description: Book by Kl'ma, Ivan

Hardcover:

9783905514315 | Edition Stemmle, October 1, 1994, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Book by Kl'ma, Ivan

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Hardcover:

9783905514308 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, October 1, 1994, cover price $60.00

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After the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968, Adam Kindl, a judge with dissident connections, is assigned a difficult case selected to test his loyalty

Paperback:

9780679737568 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, May 1, 1994), cover price $21.00 | About this edition: After the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968, Adam Kindl, a judge with dissident connections, is assigned a difficult case selected to test his loyalty

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Assigned to try a case of murder, Judge Adam Kindl discovers that the case evokes bitter memories of his childhood in a concentration camp, as well as a painful revaluation of his present life, in a novel set after the 1968 Russian invasion of Prague.
By A. G. Brain (trans) and Ivan Klima

Hardcover:

9780394589770 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1993, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: After the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968, Adam Kindl, a judge with dissident connections, is assigned a difficult case selected to test his loyalty

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Unable to earn a living as an author because his manuscripts are banned by the state, a Czech writer joins a street-sweeping gang in Prague, a job that leads to encounters with his eccentric crew and painful memoirs of the past

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9780394589763 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1991, cover price $3.98 | About this edition: Unable to earn a living as an author because his manuscripts are banned by the state, a Czech writer joins a street-sweeping gang in Prague, a job that leads to encounters with his eccentric crew and painful memoirs of the past

Paperback:

9780679737551 | Vintage Books, April 1, 1993, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Unable to earn a living as an author because his manuscripts are banned by the state, a Czech writer joins a street-sweeping gang in Prague, a job that leads to encounters with his eccentric crew and painful memoirs of the past

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A young man growing up in Czechoslovakia recounts his affections for a young kitchen girl, a doctor's wife, a spy, and a woman with a past (view table of contents)

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9780060158668 | Harpercollins, January 1, 1988, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Four short stories explore the emotional development of a young man in postwar Czechoslovakia

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9780393306019 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1989, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A young man growing up in Czechoslovakia recounts his affections for a young kitchen girl, a doctor's wife, a spy, and a woman with a past

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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9780930523046 | Readers Intl, May 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Seven stories offer a satiric look at life in modern Czechoslovakia, including the black market, love, thievery, religion, and the need for secrecy

Paperback:

9780930523053 | Reprint edition (Readers Intl, September 1, 1986), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: 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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